AI Tracker #3: Playing On The Wrong Team?
A lot of high-quality AI safety conversation happens on Twitter. Unfortunately, this leads to great write-ups & content being buried in days. We've set up AI Tracker to aggregate this content.
Playing On The Wrong Team?
Michael Nielsen, renowned physicist and science writer, author of the popular textbook Neural Networks and Deep Learning, published a nuanced and thoughtful post on existential risk from superintelligence. AISafety Memes collects some highlights.
Yes, My Lord
Connor Leahy, Conjecture CEO, this week engaged with UK legislators in the House of Lords.
A very nuanced and interesting take from someone deep in tech in response to Leahy’s proposals.
Is It TIME for MAGIC?
Andrea writes in TIME about his MAGIC proposal to ‘prevent AI disaster.’
Asimov’s Laws is All You Need?
Davidad is not amused by an alignment plan that includes… Asimov’s “Laws of Robotics.”
Speak, Explain, Pause
Gary Marcus tweets about what experts with 75% extinction risk should be doing.
Superintelligence? Americans Say “No Thanks”
Daniel Colson’s AIPI and YouGov publish a new poll on public attitudes to AI. Vox writes about it here and the Future of Life Institute shares here.
Regulatory Capture: Bully XL Edition
Twitter user RandomSprint made the first AGI safety + Bully XL + regulatory capture post that we’ve seen. Very creative.
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