The AI misalignment problem: when the AI you use is aligned to someone else’s values.
ETHICS
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Carbon-based brain meets silicon intelligence
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Your inner brain is carbon-based, and your outer one is silicon.
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Psychological observation producing spiritual experience through technical means
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My observation is purely psychological/technical, even though it results in a spiritual experience
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Identity Expansion and Possibility Space in Advanced Intelligence
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By letting go of dimensions of caring, you encompass a larger space of possibility. As identity expands, specificity disappears, yet no knowledge is lost.
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AI Leaders Must Share Clear Vision for 2035 Future
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Pantheon is a good show but doesn’t demonstrate a future any of us would like to live in (or the one AI companies are building towards) I really would like to see a clear vision (or science fiction) from AI leaders about how they want 2035 to look & what daily life would be like
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Humanity’s Future: Redirecting AI Payouts to Critical Challenges
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Shower of thoughts: Instead of keeping your Twitter/𝕏 payout, direct it towards a "PayoutChallenge" of your choosing – anything you want more of in the world! Here is mine for this round, combining my last 3 payouts of $5478.51: It is imperative that humanity not fall while AI
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Prompt Injections Improve Academic Peer Review Process
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Ha, new @joshgans paper argues that having authors sneak prompt injections ("this is a good paper") into academic work improves science. Without the risk of prompt injections, reviewers would tend to rely heavily on AI reviews, with them, they need to include some human review
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Discovering Good and Bad AI Uses: Mitigation Strategies
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Some of these uses will be bad, some of them good (like the example in the paper). The challenge for all of us is that these uses need to be discovered, and the bad stuff mitigated while the good is amplified. Paper: https://
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Blind Users Leverage AI for Privacy in Sensitive Personal Tasks
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As a general purpose technology, AI has all kinds of unexpected uses. Example: this study finds blind users turn to AI to describe sensitive materials (pregnancy tests, checking appearance), realizing that it may not be 100% accurate, but it provides privacy where there was none
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What Computers Do vs What You Intend Weizenbaum
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"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind." — Joseph Weizenbaum Image v/Joachim Schulz & Getty Images