Before clicking through, I expected the response to be something like, “So you’re worried about AI replacing human labor and wondering, ‘What should I do about it?’ Here at MIRI …”
The actual post turns out to be an intelligent and well-thought out guide for how to predict AI advances. Since it seems to largely agree with the time frame suggested in the article above, it is probably most useful for readers who were skeptical of those claims.
What would you suggest for readers who find themselves mostly convinced by Drum’s argument, and are asking the “What should I do” question?
(Context: as a MIRI supporter, I’m not asking for information for myself so much as for resources that would be helpful to share with others who start thinking about intelligence explosion issues within the context of technology replacing human labor.)
I think there’s another step missing between being convinced that AI will replace human labor and that AI is the most pressing x-risk (which is the starting point for the article you linked), but this gives me an idea of what the form of your answer would be:
Not only will AI replace human labor, it’s also extremely dangerous (for reasons laid out elsewhere on LessWrong / MIRI / various lukeprog-created websites :)), so we really need to solve the more general problem of AI x-risk.
I published a response to Drum’s article here, on MIRI’s blog.
Before clicking through, I expected the response to be something like, “So you’re worried about AI replacing human labor and wondering, ‘What should I do about it?’ Here at MIRI …”
The actual post turns out to be an intelligent and well-thought out guide for how to predict AI advances. Since it seems to largely agree with the time frame suggested in the article above, it is probably most useful for readers who were skeptical of those claims.
What would you suggest for readers who find themselves mostly convinced by Drum’s argument, and are asking the “What should I do” question?
(Context: as a MIRI supporter, I’m not asking for information for myself so much as for resources that would be helpful to share with others who start thinking about intelligence explosion issues within the context of technology replacing human labor.)
See How Can I Reduce Existential Risk from AI?
I think there’s another step missing between being convinced that AI will replace human labor and that AI is the most pressing x-risk (which is the starting point for the article you linked), but this gives me an idea of what the form of your answer would be:
Not only will AI replace human labor, it’s also extremely dangerous (for reasons laid out elsewhere on LessWrong / MIRI / various lukeprog-created websites :)), so we really need to solve the more general problem of AI x-risk.