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If you’ve been wondering why I’m suddenly blogging every day… well, it’s about to stop! I decided last minute to join InkHaven, i.e. commit to blogging every day for the month of April. This was a somewhat questionable decision because I have a lot of other shit going on. For...
It’s sort of easy to forget how close Bernie Sanders was to becoming the most powerful person in the world. The world we live in feels so much not like that place. I’m in Washington DC for the next week, and I’ve just finished a public appearance with Senator Sanders...
We need a way to stop AI developers from building AIs that might go rogue and kill us all. This is obviously something for the government to do. It could pass new laws prohibiting this and/or establishing an AI regulatory body. But do we need new laws? Isn’t it already...
A common thought pattern people seem to fall into when thinking about AI x-risk is approaching the problem as if the risk isn’t real, substantial, and imminent even if they think it is. When thinking this way, it becomes impossible to imagine the natural responses of people to the horror...
If a superintelligent AI suddenly “goes rogue”, it might take over the world and kill everyone. It matters a lot whether this happens to a single copy of an AI, or to every copy at the same time. Let’s consider the “every copy at the same time” case. I’ll discuss...
Part 3 of a series. Here are part 1 and part 2. One of the things that always surprised me is how few people in AI were interested in AI safety and alignment purely out of intellectual curiosity. These topics raise the kind of novel, foundational problems that scientists typically...
Other people have written about reasons why we should trust AIs; the main one in my mind is that it’s possible to look at the computations they perform when producing an output (even if we struggle to understand them). I’m going to write about reasons why we shouldn’t trust AIs,...