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Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt

Joel Z. Leibo [1], Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets [1], William A. Cunningham [1, 2], Sébastien Krier [1], Manfred Diaz [3], Simon Osindero [1] [1] Google DeepMind, [2] University of Toronto, [3] Mila Québec AI Institute We published a more academically oriented version of this post on arxiv, available here. Disclaimer: These...

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Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt

Apr 22, 2025•46

Manfred Diaz

Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt

Joel Z. Leibo

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Joel Z. Leibo [1], Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets [1], William A. Cunningham [1, 2], Sébastien Krier [1], Manfred Diaz [3], Simon Osindero [1]

[1] Google DeepMind, [2] University of Toronto, [3] Mila Québec AI Institute

We published a more academically oriented version of this post on arxiv, available here.

Disclaimer: These are our own opinions; they do not represent the views of Google DeepMind as a whole or its broader community of safety researchers.

Beyond Alignment: The Patchwork Quilt of Human Coexistence

"We pragmatists think of moral progress as more like sewing together a very large, elaborate, polychrome quilt, than like getting a clearer vision of something true and deep." – Richard Rorty (2021) pg. 141

Quite a lot of thinking in AI alignment,... (read 7415 more words →)