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A brief collection of Hinton’s recent comments on AGI risk

Kaj_Sotala4 May 2023 23:31 UTC

143 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

Robin Hanson and I talk about AI risk

KatjaGrace4 May 2023 22:20 UTC

39 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm

jasoncrawford4 May 2023 22:11 UTC

122 points

29 comments13 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Recursive Middle Manager Hell: AI Edition

VojtaKovarik4 May 2023 20:08 UTC

30 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

AI risk/reward: A simple model

Nathan Young4 May 2023 19:25 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”

Chris_Leong4 May 2023 18:23 UTC

61 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

(www.semianalysis.com)

Trying to measure AI deception capabilities using temporary simulation fine-tuning

alenoach4 May 2023 17:59 UTC

4 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

[Linkpost]Transformer-Based LM Surprisal Predicts Human Reading Times Best with About Two Billion Training Tokens

Curtis Huebner4 May 2023 17:16 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Clarifying and predicting AGI

Richard_Ngo4 May 2023 15:55 UTC

129 points

42 comments4 min readLW link

[Crosspost] AI X-risk in the News: How Effective are Recent Media Items and How is Awareness Changing? Our New Survey Results.

otto.barten4 May 2023 14:09 UTC

5 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

AI #10: Code Interpreter and Geoff Hinton

Zvi4 May 2023 14:00 UTC

80 points

7 comments78 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Advice for interacting with busy people

Severin T. Seehrich4 May 2023 13:31 UTC

66 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

We don’t need AGI for an amazing future

Karl von Wendt4 May 2023 12:10 UTC

18 points

32 comments5 min readLW link

Has the Symbol Grounding Problem just gone away?

RussellThor4 May 2023 7:46 UTC

12 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Opinion merging for AI control

David Johnston4 May 2023 2:43 UTC

6 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Understanding why illusionism does not deny the existence of qualia

Mergimio H. Doefevmil4 May 2023 2:13 UTC

0 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[New] Rejected Content Section

Ruby and Raemon

4 May 2023 1:43 UTC

65 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

How MATS addresses “mass movement building” concerns

Ryan Kidd4 May 2023 0:55 UTC

62 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Moving VPS Again

jefftk4 May 2023 0:30 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Prizes for matrix completion problems

paulfchristiano3 May 2023 23:30 UTC

163 points

51 comments1 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

Alignment Research @ EleutherAI

Curtis Huebner3 May 2023 22:45 UTC

40 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(blog.eleuther.ai)

«Boundaries/Membranes» and AI safety compilation

Chipmonk3 May 2023 21:41 UTC

53 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What constraints does deep learning place on alignment plans?

Garrett Baker3 May 2023 20:40 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AGI rising: why we are in a new era of acute risk and increasing public awareness, and what to do now

Greg C3 May 2023 20:26 UTC

23 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Formalizing the “AI x-risk is unlikely because it is ridiculous” argument

Christopher King3 May 2023 18:56 UTC

47 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] List of notable people who believe in AI X-risk?

vlad.proex3 May 2023 18:46 UTC

14 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] LessWrong exporting?

axiomAdministrator3 May 2023 18:34 UTC

0 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-03

jasoncrawford3 May 2023 16:23 UTC

13 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Personhood is a Religious Belief

jan Sijan3 May 2023 16:16 UTC

−42 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

Slowing AI: Crunch time

Zach Stein-Perlman3 May 2023 15:00 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Finding Neurons in a Haystack: Case Studies with Sparse Probing

wesg and Neel Nanda

3 May 2023 13:30 UTC

33 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Monthly Roundup #6: May 2023

Zvi3 May 2023 12:50 UTC

31 points

12 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How much do personal biases in risk assessment affect assessment of AI risks?

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 May 2023 6:12 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Communication strategies for autism, with examples

stonefly3 May 2023 5:25 UTC

15 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Understand how other people think: a theory of worldviews.

spencerg3 May 2023 3:57 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

“Copilot” type AI integration could lead to training data needed for AGI

anithite3 May 2023 0:57 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds

JakubK2 May 2023 22:50 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Case for the Least Forgiving Take On Alignment

Thane Ruthenis2 May 2023 21:34 UTC

99 points

82 comments22 min readLW link

Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? [linkpost]

Matthew Barnett2 May 2023 21:01 UTC

52 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Does descaling a kettle help? Theory and practice

philh2 May 2023 20:20 UTC

35 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Avoiding xrisk from AI doesn’t mean focusing on AI xrisk

Stuart_Armstrong2 May 2023 19:27 UTC

64 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

AI Safety Newsletter #4: AI and Cybersecurity, Persuasive AIs, Weaponization, and Geoffrey Hinton talks AI risks

ozhang, Dan H, Akash and aogara

2 May 2023 18:41 UTC

32 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

My best system yet: text-based project management

jt2 May 2023 17:44 UTC

6 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the state of AI safety in Japan?

ChristianKl2 May 2023 17:06 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Five Worlds of AI (by Scott Aaronson and Boaz Barak)

mishka2 May 2023 13:23 UTC

21 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(scottaaronson.blog)

Systems that cannot be unsafe cannot be safe

Davidmanheim2 May 2023 8:53 UTC

62 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

AGI safety career advice

Richard_Ngo2 May 2023 7:36 UTC

131 points

24 comments13 min readLW link

An Impossibility Proof Relevant to the Shutdown Problem and Corrigibility

Audere2 May 2023 6:52 UTC

65 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on Virtue Ethics for AIs

peligrietzer2 May 2023 5:46 UTC

74 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Technological unemployment as another test for rationalist winning

RomanHauksson2 May 2023 4:16 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link