I’ve been coming to LessWrong for a while. I’ve read most of the arguments for how and why things might go wrong.
I’ve been keeping across most developments. I’ve been following alignment efforts. I’ve done some thinking about the challenges involved.
But now I feel it.
Spending time observing ChatGPT – its abilities, its quirks, its flaws – has brought my feelings into step with my beliefs.
I already appreciated why I should be concerned about AI. Like I say, I’d read the arguments, and I’d often agreed.
But my appreciation took a detached, ‘I can’t fault the reasoning so I should accept the conclusion’ kind of form. I was concerned in the abstract, but I was... (read 156 more words →)