AI Tracker #2: Move Aside Humanity

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Move Aside Humanity

Richard Sutton imagines AI is just the next step in evolution and humanity should stop aside. It’s the ‘inevitable succession.’

Sutton supposedly is (or was) a distinguished research scientist at Google DeepMind. Matt Yglesias thinks differently.

Polling Second Serve

AIPI’s Daniel Colson releases a second YouGov poll of US voters this week.

Operation Davidad?

The UK’s moonshot public R&D lab previews its new directors, one of which is alignment guru, Davidad.

What’s Von Der Leyen Saying?

Conjecture’s Andrea Miotti was happy to see the EU Commission President acknowledge x-risk from AI.

Simeon Campos also welcomed the European Commission news, and went into a deep dive of what exact changes the EU AI Act would need to directly address catastrophic risk from AI.

Future of Life Institute’s Max Tegmark was similarly struck.

Worries About Deepfakes

54 Attorneys General sent a letter to Congress about the proliferation of deepfakes being used to generate child sexual abuse material.

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