Kids have human nature and drives hardwired in their intrinsic objectives. With education, we can merely modify these objectives slightly.
For AI systems, we get to *design* their intrinsic objectives. This makes it *much* easier to align AI to the Common Good than it is to align
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Designing AI Intrinsic Objectives for Common Good Alignment
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Aligning AI with Common Good Easier Than Nature Modification
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It is much, much easier to align AI with the Common Good, than it is for children and animals.
the reason is that we can't "hack" human nature. We can only modify it through education.
We can "hack" animal nature through selective breeding (which is pretty brutal).
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Superintelligent Sociopaths: Existential Risk Assessment
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– The proportion of sociopaths in society is way larger than 1 in a few million.
– If society is robust to sociopaths, why can't it be robust to artificial sociopaths?
– What makes you think that we will actually build super-intelligent sociopaths?
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Partnership on AI Publishes Safe Foundation Model Deployment Guidance
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The Partnership on AI is publishing guidance for safe foundation model deployment. There is a request for comments on the current version https://
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AI Education Risks: Baby Hitlers in Nuclear Physics Classes
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I made that point during the Munk Debate in response to Max Tegmark (who is a physics professor at MIT): "Why aren't you worried that some students in your nuclear physics class could be baby Hitlers?"
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Human-Level AI Technology Not Yet Invented
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I know this is X and comments often turn to insults, but I would encourage you to try to understand the argument instead of hiding your lack of understanding behind accusations of dishonesty and ill intent. Technology to reach uuman-lavel AI has *not* yet been invented, pretty
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Open AI Research and Debunking AI Doomsday Prophecies
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Regulation Strategy: Product Safety vs Research Freedom
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AlphaZero Planning Through MCTS and Neural Networks
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AlphaZero *does* perform planning.
That's done through MCTS, using a ConvNet to propose good moves and another one to evaluate positions.
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Inaugural Chair Named for Jacob Schwartz Professorship Computer Science
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I am extremely honored and grateful to be named the inaugural chair of the Courant Institute's Jacob T. Schwartz Chaired Professorship in Computer Science. Jack Schwartz co-founded the NYU computer science department in the late 1960s, as a spin-off of the Courant Institute of