AI-ON is an open community dedicated to advancing Artificial Intelligence

morganism

This is a linkpost for http://ai-on.org/

This may be a naive and over-simplified stance, so educate me if I'm being ignorant--

but isn't promiting anything that speeds up AI reasearch the absolute worst thing we can do? If the fate of humanity rests on the outcome of the race between solving the friendly AI problem and reaching intelligent AI, shouldn't we only support research that goes exclusively into the former, and perhaps even try to slow down the latter? The link you shared seems to fall into the latter category, aiming for general promotion of the idea and accelerating research.

Feel free to just provide a link if the argument has been discussed before.

I agree. But it's worthwhile to try to get AI researchers on our side, and get them researching things relevant to FAI. Perhaps lesswrong could have some influence on this group. If nothing else it's interesting to keep an eye on how AI is progressing.

0Commander Zander10y

First of all, it's hard to imagine anyone slowing down AI research. Even a ban by n large governments would only encourage research in places beyond government control. Second, there is quite a lot of uncertainty about the difficulty of these tasks. Both human-comparable software and AI value alignment probably involve multiple difficult subproblems that have barely been researched so far.

0username210y

What you've expressed is the outlier, extremist view. Most AI researchers are of the opinion, if they have expressed a thought at all, that there is a long series of things that must happen in conjunction for a skynet like failure to occur. It is hardly obvious at all that AI should be a highly regulated research field, like say nuclear weapons research. I highly suggest expanding your reading beyond the Yudjowsky, Bostrom et all clique.

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