Nicholas Turner

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I’m a graduate student in the Seung Lab at Princeton University working on connectomics of samples imaged by electron microscopy (EM). I’m also generally interested in applications of machine learning to problems of broad impact, climate change, or social good.

Most of my graduate work has...

Chance that "AI safety basically [doesn't need] to be solved, we’ll just solve it by default unless we’re completely completely careless"

Dec 8, 202027

As part of the 2020 Effective Altruism Student Summit, AI safety researcher Buck Shlegeris advised newcomers to "think through the entire problem," determining what the concrete dangers of unsafe AI actually are and how to address them. In an earnest effort to do just that, Nicholas L. Turner, Aidan Kierans, Morpheus, Quinn Dougherty, Jeffrey Yun, and others started a small AI Safety Forecasting Workshop to practice defining, estimating, and forecasting different outcomes. We've perceived a small degree of success in making questions more concrete, and so we decided to share our thoughts to help other aspirants. The following is adapted from our notes for this week's meeting, and we've added context or... (read 1289 more words →)

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Nicholas Turner

Nicholas Turner

Chance that "AI safety basically [doesn't need] to be solved, we’ll just solve it by default unless we’re completely completely careless"

Nicholas Turner

Nicholas Turner

Chance that "AI safety basically [doesn't need] to be solved, we’ll just solve it by default unless we’re completely completely careless"