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Prioritizing Current AI Solutions Over Long-term Speculation
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I’m with @ylecun and @AndrewYNg on this. I feel it is more responsible to devote greater effort to solving today’s problems (e.g. climate, health, energy, poverty, safety, communication, bias and discrimination, education) than to cultist AI long term speculation.
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Opposing AI R&D Regulation: Access and Safety Debate
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Fight people who want to regulate AI R&D by claiming that it's too dangerous for everyone but them to have access to it.
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Meta’s Ethical Considerations for AI Product Deployment
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Meta is asking itself this kind of questions literally *every* *single* *time* a product is under consideration for deployment.
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Turbojet Safety: Engineers’ Responsibility Without External Pressure
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Engineers and scientists who have made turbojets as safe and reliable as they are today haven't specifically worked on "turbojet safety," nor have they been required to "acknowledge there is a problem to be solved" by mobs of random people claiming they weren't doing their job
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GovFuture Podcast Interviews Public Sector Thought Leaders
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GovFuture podcast continues to interview amazing guests and thought leaders in the public sector space! Rate and leave a written review of GovFuture podcast to help amplify this podcast: https://
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Safe Technology Deployment Path Will Prevail Over Unsafe Alternatives
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No.
I'm claiming that if there is a way to build and deploy a technology in a safe way, that's the way it will happen.
The fact that there are zillions of ways to build unsafe versions of it is completely irrelevant.
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AI Safety Debate: Comparing Risks to Established Technologies
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BS.
1. Turbojets actually enable the destruction of entire cities by bombing. Yet we still build turbojets.
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Burden of Proof in AI Safety Claims and Technology Risk
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You are claiming something exists. As with Bertrand Russell's teapot, the burden of proof is on you.
So far, it's just been sci-fi, scary sci-fi, but sci-fi nonetheless. A technology is not unsafe merely because of the possibility of doing it wrong.
A technology is safe because