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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

Agreeing to make ai safer may be impossible

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Alex Hern

“This week I covered the reasons why it feels like everyone in AI suddenly thinks we’re doomed and where the reasons to hope they’re wrong lie economist.com/internationa...”

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Alex Hern: This week I covered the reasons why it feels like everyone in AI suddenly thinks we’re doomed and where the reasons to hope they’re wrong lie economist.com/internationa...
Doll: No mention of the EA/Rationalist sex cult driving the AI doom prophecies?
Alex Hern: One thing I didn’t have space to fit here: some people, on both sides of the debate, like to pretend that the only AI risk worth caring about is superintelligence. I think that’s wrong, and misses …
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3 experts · 3 posts · 6d ago
Simon Willison Alex Hern Arseny Khakhalin
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Alex Hern: The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings o…
Simon Willison: The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings o…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 5d ago
Alex Hern Michiel Bontenbal
Alex Hern: was really struck by a Stratechery point, that the single best thing America could do to improve its chances against China is legalise distillation on-shore. Currently only Chinese labs get to dist…
Alex Hern: I think there's a principled point for legalising distillation — if you get to use the commons to train an LLM so do I — but even beyond the principled point, it's just not working out as very effe…
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