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AI alignment and societal rollout: balancing technical and human challenges

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19 February 2023 4h10

Code is much easier than people. Maybe one reason that classic AI safety thinking focuses so exclusively on the technical alignment problem—misuse harder to solve through theory. But for good future with AI, must do an A+ job on both alignment and societal rollout. Iteration key.

Institutions Must Prepare Regulation for Advanced AI Systems

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19 February 2023 2h00

we also need enough time for our institutions to figure out what to do. regulation will be critical and will take time to figure out; although current-generation AI tools aren’t very scary, i think we are potentially not that far away from potentially scary ones.

Understanding AI Tools Adoption and Societal Co-evolution

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19 February 2023 2h00

having time to understand what’s happening, how people want to use these tools, and how society can co-evolve is critical.

Early AI Tools Release: Balancing Empowerment and Serious Challenges

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19 February 2023 2h00

we think showing these tools to the world early, while still somewhat broken, is critical if we are going to have sufficient input and repeated efforts to get it right. the level of individual empowerment coming is wonderful, but not without serious challenges.

Society needs time to adapt to major technological transitions

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19 February 2023 2h00

a transition like this is mostly good, and can happen somewhat fast—the transition from the pre-smartphone world to post-smartphone world is a recent example. but it’ll be tempting to go super quickly, which is frightening—society needs time to adapt to something so big.

Generational accountability: understanding future AI ethics impacts

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19 February 2023 0h47

i wish that all generations would treat previous generations with indulgence. humanity is deeply imperfect. our grandparents did horrible things; our grandchildren will understand that we did horrible things we don’t yet understand.