Caleb Biddulph comments on Musings from a Lawyer turned AI Safety researcher (ShortForm)

[Caleb Biddulph]

She does seem like a LinkedIn grifter, but if she’s a popular LinkedIn grifter I guess this could mean something.

I’m not sure if important people at Fortune 500s are reading LinkedIn grifter newsletters. Or if Fortune 500s that aren’t Alphabet or Nvidia are actually relevant for AI.

Maybe Luisa Jarovsky’s recommendation is primarily important as an indicator that “normies” (who can vote, etc.) are aware of IABIED.

This is the 29th book Luisa has recommended for her “AI book club,” so possibly she just needed something to recommend and IABIED is a recent AI book with a lot of marketing around it. And even in her recommendation, she mentions that she “disagrees with catastrophic framings of AI risk.”

[Warty]

she “disagrees with catastrophic framings of AI risk.”

that’s not very consistent with my understanding of the words “endorsed IABIED” from OP

[Katalina Hernandez]

This is what she says:

Why read:

Although, in general, I disagree with catastrophic framings of AI risk (which have been exploited by AI CEOs to increase interest in their products, as I recently wrote in my newsletter), the AI safety debate is an important one, and it concerns all of us.

There are differing opinions on the current path of AI development and its possible futures. There are also various gray zones and unanswered questions on possible ways to mitigate risk and avoid harm.

Yudkowsky has been researching AI alignment for over 20 years, and together with Soares, he has built a strong argument for why AI safety concerns are urgent and why action is needed now. Whether you agree with their tone or not, their book is worth reading.