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AI Safety Seems Hard to Measure

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In previous pieces, I argued that there's a real and large risk of AI systems' developing dangerous goals of their own and defeating all of humanity - at least in the absence of specific efforts to prevent this from happening. Unfortunately, I think it could be hard to know either way.

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AI News Weekly - Issue #350: TIME100 AI list : 100 most influential people in AI - Sep 14th 2023

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Powered by attention.tech In the News TIME100 AI list : 100 most influential people in AI This group of 100 individuals is in many ways a map of the relationships and power centers driving the development of AI. This AI wizard can: Automatically log in crucial info into your CRM. Updating your CRM. Writing emails.

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You Can’t Regulate What You Don’t Understand

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That was the date when OpenAI released ChatGPT, the day that AI emerged from research labs into an unsuspecting world. Most notably, The Future of Life Institute published an open letter calling for an immediate pause in advanced AI research , asking: “Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth?

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Good job opportunities for helping with the most important century

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I wrote ~2 years ago that it was hard to point to concrete opportunities to help the most important century go well. There are a good number of jobs available now that are both really promising opportunities to help (in my opinion) and are suitable for people without a lot of pre-existing knowledge of AI risk (or even AI).

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images The AI debate splitting the tech world, explained. Last week, Meta made a game-changing move in the world of AI. But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe.

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Spreading messages to help with the most important century

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In the most important century series, I argued that the 21st century could be the most important century ever for humanity, via the development of advanced AI systems that could dramatically speed up scientific and technological advancement, getting us more quickly than most people imagine to a deeply unfamiliar future.

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What AI companies can do today to help with the most important century

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This piece is about what major AI companies can do (and not do) to be helpful. By “major AI companies,” I mean the sorts of AI companies that are advancing the state of the art, and/or could play a major role in how very powerful AI systems end up getting used.

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