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30 October 2023 0h01

My good AI will take down your rogue AI.

30 October 2023

AI Existential Risk and Open Source AI Debate

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29 October 2023 23h57

Another comment to a tweet from @tegmark asking me (again) why I think AI won't kill us all, and claiming that the question of existential risk is disconnected from the question of open source AI.

AI Autonomy Claims Debunked: Understanding System Limitations

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29 October 2023 23h42

This idea that we don't really understand AI systems and that they "can become autonomous and modify their own goals" is complete bullshit.

AI Safety and Existential Risks Without Proper Safeguards

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29 October 2023 23h31

Are rocket engines capable of doom or not?
In some stupid scenarios, they are.
Build thousands of nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, and launch them. Is AI capable of doom or not? In some stupid scenarios, they are.
Build powerful AI systems without guardrails to make

Recurring AI Gone Wrong Theme in Science Fiction

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29 October 2023 23h24

Same story in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Same story in Frankenstein.
A recurring theme in SciFi.

Jaan Talinn funds major AI existential risk research institutes

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29 October 2023 23h21

Max Tegmark is the President of the Board of the Future of Life Institute, which is bankrolled by billionaire and Skype and Kazaa co-founder Jaan Talinn.
Talinn also bankrolls the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Future of Humanity Institute, the Global

Building Reliable Safe Controllable AI Systems Through Action

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29 October 2023 23h16

That's how progress will be made.
Not by people bloviating about risks.
But by people like you actually doing the hard work of designing AI systems that are reliable, safe, and controlable.

Open Source AI Safety Risks and Regulatory Concerns

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29 October 2023 23h02

The reason that (2) is in question and open source AI R&D is threatened is (1). Those questions are not disconnected. If you ask "give me arguments for why turbojets and rocket engines won't kill people", I could respond by pointing to a dozen treatises on how to design and

Could Open Source SkyNet Have Prevented Terminator Takeover?

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29 October 2023 22h35

Since many AI doom scenarios sound like science fiction, let me ask this:
Could the SkyNet take-over in Terminator have happened if SkyNet had been open source?