Scott Aaronson is not that worried about AI killing us all. Scott appears to reject the idea that a very intelligent AI could have goals that are really bad for humans. Here’s his blog post: “Why am I not Terrified of AI?" He rejects the Orthogonality Thesis by name. To...
Letter to Editor - MIT Tech Review - Wed, 30-Aug-2023 I submitted the below in response to Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they were. _____ In "Large language models aren’t people," MIT Technology continues to serve as a counterweight to AI hype. The article...
What if the Alignment Problem is impossible? It would be sad for humanity if we live in a world where building AGI is very possible but aligning AGI is impossible. Our curiosity, competitive dynamics, and understandable desire for a powerful force for good will spur us to build the unaligned...
A parable about artificial intelligence ______ During the early days of humanity when things were still very touch and go, a nasty virus struck and only a single human male survived to walk the earth. Though humans were few, chimpanzees were many, and a large troop overwhelmed Man and put...