Hi, I am a Physicist, an Effective Altruist and AI Safety student/researcher.
I've now updated the event information to include summaries/abstracts for the projects/talks. Some of these are still under construction.
Ok, you're right that this is a very morally clear story. My bad for not knowing what's typical tabloid storry.
Missing kid = bad,
seems like a good lesson for AI to learn.
I don't read much sensationalist tabloid, but my impression is that the things that get a lot of attention in the press, is things people can reasonable take either side of.
Scott Alexander writes about how everyone agrees that factory framing is terrible, but exactly because this overwhelming agreement, it get's no attention. Which is why PETA does outrageous things to get attention.
The Toxoplasma Of Rage | Slate Star Codex
There need to be two sides to an issue, or else no-one gets ingroup loyalty points for taking one side or the other.
Their more human-in-the-loop stuff seems neat though.
I found this on their website
Soon, interacting with AI agents will be a part of daily life, presenting enormous regulatory and compliance challenges alongside incredible opportunities.
Norm Ai agents also work alongside other AI agents who have been entrusted to automate business processes. Here, the role of the Norm Ai agent is to automatically ensure that actions other AI agents take are in compliance with laws.
I'm not sure if this is worrying, because I don't think AI overseeing AI is a good solution. Or it's actually good, because, again, not a good solution, which might lead to some early warnings?
Sensationalist tabloid news stories and other outrage porn are not the opposite. These are actually more of the same. More edge cases. Anything that is divisive have the problem I'm talking about.
Fiction is a better choice.
Or even just completely ordinary every-day human behaviour. Most humans are mostly nice most of the time.
We might have to start with the very basic, the stuff we don't even notice, because it's too obvious. Things no-one would think of writing down.
The math in the post is super hand-wavey, so I don't expect the result to be exactly correct. However in your example, l up to 100 should be ok, since there is no super position. 2.7 is almost 2 orders of magnitude off, which is not great.
Looking into what is going on: I'm basing my results on the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, which gives an upper bound on the interference. In the post I'm assuming that the actual interference is order of magnitude the same as the this upper bound. This assumption is clearly fails in your example since the interference between features is zero, and nothing is the same order of magnitude as zero.
I might try to do the math more carefully, unless someone else gets there first. No promises though.
I expect that my qualitative claims will still hold. This is based on more than the math, but math seemed easier to write down. I think it would be worth doing the math properly, both to confirm my claims, and it may be useful to have more more accurate quantitative formulas. I might do this if I got some spare time, but no promises.
my qualitative claims = my claims about what types of things the network is trading away when using super position
quantitative formulas = how much of these things are traded away for what amount of superposition.
Recently someone either suggested to me (or maybe told me they or someone where going to do this?) that we should train AI on legal texts, to teach it human values. Ignoring the technical problem of how to do this, I'm pretty sure legal text are not the right training data. But at the time, I could not clearly put into words why. Todays SMBC explains this for me:
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Law (smbc-comics.com)
Law is not a good representation or explanation of most of what we care about, because it's not trying to be. Law is mainly focused on the contentious edge cases.
Training an AI on trolly problems and other ethical dilemmas is even worse, for the same reason.
(Note: Said friend will be introducing himself on here and writing a sequence about his work later. When he does I will add the links here.)
Did you forget to add the links?
I disagree. In verbal space MARS and MATS are very distinct, and they look different enough to me.
However, if you want to complain, you should talk to the organisers, not one of the participants.
Here is their website: MARS — Cambridge AI Safety Hub
(I'm not involved in MARS in any way.)