Some researchers at my university have in the past expressed extreme skepticism at AGI and the safety research field, and recently released a preprint taking a stab at the “inevitability of AGI”. In this ‘journal club’ post I take a look at their article, and end up thinking that they a) have a point, AGI might be farther away than I previously thought, and b) they actually made a very AI safety-like argument in the article, which I’m not sure they realised.
Some researchers at my university have in the past expressed extreme skepticism at AGI and the safety research field, and recently released a preprint taking a stab at the “inevitability of AGI”. In this ‘journal club’ post I take a look at their article, and end up thinking that they a) have a point, AGI might be farther away than I previously thought, and b) they actually made a very AI safety-like argument in the article, which I’m not sure they realised.