TLDR: Last year, Vael Gates interviewed 97 AI researchers about their perceptions on the future of AI, focusing on risks from advanced AI. Among other questions, researchers were asked about the alignment problem, the problem of instrumental incentives, and their interest in AI alignment research. Following up after 5-6 months,...
Tldr: Check out the new AI Risk Discussions website! It contains 83 transcripts of AI researcher interviews, and a quantitative analysis (full report) of these interviews. We also built an interactive walkthrough of perspectives and arguments. We would be grateful for any feedback! In February-March 2022, Vael Gates conducted a...
TLDR: Last year, Vael Gates interviewed 97 AI researchers about their perceptions on the future of AI, focusing on risks from advanced AI. Among other questions, researchers were asked about the alignment problem, the problem of instrumental incentives, and their interest in AI alignment research. Following up after 5-6 months, 51% reported the interview had a lasting effect on their beliefs. Our new report analyzes these interviews in depth. We describe our primary results and some implications for field-building below. Check out the full report (interactive graph version), a complementary writeup describing whether we can predict a researcher’s interest in alignment, and our results below!
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Tldr: Check out the new AI Risk Discussions website! It contains 83 transcripts of AI researcher interviews, and a quantitative analysis (full report) of these interviews. We also built an interactive walkthrough of perspectives and arguments. We would be grateful for any feedback!
In February-March 2022, Vael Gates conducted a series of 97 interviews with AI researchers about their perceptions of the future of AI, focusing on their responses to arguments for potential risk from advanced systems. Eleven transcripts from those interviews were released, along with a talk summarizing the findings, with the promise of further analysis of the results.
We have now finished the analysis, and created a website aimed at a technical audience to explore the results!
Lukas Trötzmüller has... (read more)