My goal here is to establish a shared baseline (or model) for thinking about AI. I've found that disagreements about AI policy/governance/alignment will often trace back to unstated divergence on base-level facts. A. Machine Learning - how can AI models do things we didn't program them to? 1. Modern AI...
The technology is transformative, the risks catastrophic, and the rate of change overwhelming. For things to go well, there's much work to be done. The legal profession needs to be stirred into action. I'm a barrister with over a decade in litigation and human rights. My goal here is to...
An attempt to explain machine learning through to systemic and x-risk in 995 words. Algorithms are instructions for processing information, they receive an “input”, apply rules with fixed “parameters”, and produce an “output”. Take distance = speed x time. Speed and time are inputs, multiplication is the rule, distance is...