XiXiDu comments on Google may be trying to take over the world - Less Wrong

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Comment author: XiXiDu 27 January 2014 11:52:47AM *  21 points [-]

...has someone had a polite word with them about not killing all humans by sheer accident?

Shane Legg is familiar with AI risks. So is Jaan Tallinn, a top donor of MIRI, who is also associated with DeepMind. I suppose they will talk about their fears with Google.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 January 2014 12:41:43PM 12 points [-]

Actually, there does seem to have been a very quiet press release about this acquisition resulting in a DeepMind ethics board.

So that's a relief.

Comment author: curiousepic 27 January 2014 04:30:06PM *  1 point [-]

Is there any more information beyond mentions like this?

Comment author: Emile 27 January 2014 12:28:24PM 3 points [-]

Not to mention of course the Google employees that post on LW.

Comment author: XiXiDu 27 January 2014 12:32:41PM *  8 points [-]

Not to mention of course the Google employees that post on LW.

I didn't know there were any. My guess is that you have to be pretty high in the hierarchy to actually steer Google into a direction that would suit MIRI (under the assumption that people who agree with MIRI are in the minority).

Comment author: jkaufman 27 January 2014 09:48:24PM 11 points [-]

I didn't know there were any.

Hi!

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 28 January 2014 01:18:17AM *  5 points [-]

plus cousin_it and at least 2-3 others. Plus Ctrl+F for Google here http://intelligence.org/team/. Moshe Looks might be one of Google's AGI people I think.

Comment author: Baughn 28 January 2014 01:23:27AM *  9 points [-]

I didn't know there were any.

Greetings from Dublin! You're right that the average employee is unlikely to matter, though.