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).
We can
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Aligning AI with Common Good Easier Than Nature Modification
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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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Universal Music sues Amazon’s AI – AI News Roundup
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Universal Music attaque en justice l'IA de Amazon… On fait le tour de l'actu IA ! (premier Multi stream !) https://t.co/IJYlUlwyM8
— Defend Intelligence (Anis Ayari) (@DFintelligence) 24 octobre 2023Universal Music is suing Amazon's AI… We cover the AI news roundup! (first Multi stream!)
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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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Open AI Research and Debunking AI Doomsday Prophecies
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An interview of me in the Financial Times in which I explain the reasons for supporting open research in AI and open source AI platforms.
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Machine Translation Origins: Cold War Military Funding and Development
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2. Machine Translation & Power by @amandalynneP "The first machine translation efforts in the United States were spurred by the Cold War. Early…systems were…developed with funding from and for use by the military and other federal agencies,"
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AI Industry’s Focus on Military and War Applications
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I really don't have it in me to pontificate about AI right now, except for how the industry is all about war and military. Here are a few books and articles on the topic. 1. The Birth of Computer vision by @jeddobson
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Computer Vision: Algorithms, People, and Politics of Perception
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"The Birth of Computer Vision uncovers these histories and finds connections between the algorithms, people, and politics at the core of automating perception today."
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Regulation Strategy: Product Safety vs Research Freedom
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Incidentally:
– I am not anti-regulation.
– regulating the deployment of *product* is useful to guarantee safety. – but I'm very much against regulating research and development.
– and I'm very much against regulations that would make open source AI illegal or difficult.