If you are or have been employed as an AI Safety Researcher, I'd love to interview you as background for a novel that I'm writing. I'm interested in learning what a day in the life of an AI researcher typically looks like. I'd be happy to include you in the...
According to public reports, Dan Hendrycks has been influenced by EA since he was a freshman (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/06/opinion/ai-safety-human-extinction-dan-hendrycks-cais/). He did the 80,000 hours program. He worries about AI bringing about the end of humanity, if not the planet. After getting his Ph.D., he started an AI safety organization instead of joining...
We've been told by VCs and founders in the AI space that Human-level Artificial Intelligence (formerly AGI), followed by Superintelligence, will bring about a techno-utopia, if it doesn't kill us all first. In order to fulfill that dream, AI must be sentient, and that requires it have consciousness. Today, AI...