I noticed that the comments regarding AI safety (e.g. on Twitter, YouTube, HackerNews) often contain sentiments like:
"there's no evidence AGI will be dangerous" or
"AGI will do what we intend by default" or
"making AGI safe is not a real or hard problem" / "it's obvious, just do X"
I had a thought that it might make a compelling case for 'AI safety is real and difficult' if there were something akin to the Millennium Prizes for it. Something impressive and newsworthy. Not just to motivate research, but also to signal credibility ("if it's so easy, why d... (read more)
I noticed that the comments regarding AI safety (e.g. on Twitter, YouTube, HackerNews) often contain sentiments like:
I had a thought that it might make a compelling case for 'AI safety is real and difficult' if there were something akin to the Millennium Prizes for it. Something impressive and newsworthy. Not just to motivate research, but also to signal credibility ("if it's so easy, why d... (read more)