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Why We Urgently Need AI Control Systems

A perpendicular take to AGI fear-mongering

Cassie Kozyrkov
5 min readMay 19, 2024

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Approaching the AI control system question from the perspective of fear is clickbait. Talking about “smarter than us” without defining “smarter” is clickbait. Machines have better memory than us and can operate at mind-boggling scale. Already. Today.

And technology is getting more complex rapidly.

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Cassie Kozyrkov

Chief Decision Scientist, Google. ❤️ Stats, ML/AI, data, puns, art, theatre, decision science. All views are my own. twitter.com/quaesita