An excellent piece by my dear NYU colleague @togelius pointing out that regulating AI R&D (as opposed to products) would lead to unacceptable levels of policing and restrictions on the "freedom to compute"
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Nuclear Experts and AI Risk Assessment Expertise
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Nonetheless, even under your proposal, the best person to understand analogies to nuclear risk are nuclear experts. And that is who I quoted. You're a marvelous DL researcher and I've learned so much from you — but perhaps there are also people you can learn from?
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Open Source AI Platforms Against Catastrophe Risk Claims
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An article about my vociferous support of open source AI platforms.
Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman (among others) have scared governments about what they claim are risks of AI-fueled catastrophes. I know that Demis, at least, is sincere in his claims, but I think -
Human Extinction Risk from AI Within 30 Years Assessment
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I agree with Yann on this. The risk of human extinction within 30 years is extremely low — it likely requires making Earth inhospitable to human life, so that it’s not possible even for small pockets of humans to survive. This could happen from global thermonuclear war,
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Why Big Tech Really Wants AI Regulations: Liability Protection
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I suspect that Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun have missed the main reason why the big companies want regulations. Years ago the founder of a self-driving company told me that he liked safety regulations because if you satisfied them it reduced your legal liability for accidents.
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Understanding Over Experience: Novel Risk Management Strategy
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Risk management of things that are totally novel and for which you have zero experience and little understanding is very different from normal risk management. In the absence of any experience, understanding is all you have. I'd go with whoever has the best understanding.
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Tech Trinity: AI, Quantum, and BioTech Reshape Global Economy
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Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Tech, and Bio Tech will make monumental shifts in the world. This new Tech Trinity will redefine our economy, both threaten and fortify our national security, and revolutionize our intelligence community. None of us are ready for this.
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Model Transparency and Training Data Release Critical for AI Accountability
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They really need to release their model and full transcripts to see what happened, but I'd be extremely shocked if the model described anything not already in the training data.