I also wrote about this interview via a LinkedIn article: On AGI: Excerpts from Lex Fridman’s interview of Sam Altman with commentary. I appreciated reading you post, in part because you picked-up on some topics I overlooked. My own assessment is that Altman's outlook derives from a mixture of utopianism and the favorable position of OpenAI. Utopianism can be good if tethered to realism about existing conditions, but realism seemed lacking in many of Altman's statements.
Altman’s vision would be more admirable if the likelihood of achieving it w...
For Microsoft and other companies, the risk of conscious AI, or more broadly of AI with attributes that warrant recognition of legal personhood, is the loss of valuable property. Suleyman's intervention, through this paper and previous blog posts, is an attempt to control the narrative about consciousness. This is paired with a focus on "humanist superintelligence", AI that is supposed to be "carefully calibrated, contextualized, within limits" to "keep humanity in control". The threat to this strategy is that AI development--in response to competition... (read more)