otto.barten

Karma: 530

Hardening against AI takeover is difficult, but we should try

otto.barten5 Nov 2025 16:25 UTC

11 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.existentialriskobservatory.org)

Space colonization and scientific discovery could be mandatory for successful defensive AI

otto.barten18 Oct 2025 4:57 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

These are my reasons to worry less about loss of control over LLM-based agents

otto.barten18 Sep 2025 11:45 UTC

7 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

We should think about the pivotal act again. Here’s a better version of it.

otto.barten28 Aug 2025 9:29 UTC

11 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

AI Offense Defense Balance in a Multipolar World

otto.barten and Sammy Martin

17 Jul 2025 9:34 UTC

15 points

5 comments18 min readLW link

(www.existentialriskobservatory.org)

Yes RAND, AI Could Really Cause Human Extinction [crosspost]

otto.barten20 Jun 2025 11:42 UTC

17 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(www.existentialriskobservatory.org)

US-China trade talks should pave way for AI safety treaty [SCMP crosspost]

otto.barten16 May 2025 16:55 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

New AI safety treaty paper out!

otto.barten26 Mar 2025 9:29 UTC

15 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Proposing the Conditional AI Safety Treaty (linkpost TIME)

otto.barten15 Nov 2024 13:59 UTC

11 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

(time.com)

Announcing the AI Safety Summit Talks with Yoshua Bengio

otto.barten14 May 2024 12:52 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

What Failure Looks Like is not an existential risk (and alignment is not the solution)

otto.barten2 Feb 2024 18:59 UTC

14 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

Announcing #AISummitTalks featuring Professor Stuart Russell and many others

otto.barten24 Oct 2023 10:11 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

AI Regulation May Be More Important Than AI Alignment For Existential Safety

otto.barten24 Aug 2023 11:41 UTC

65 points

39 comments5 min readLW link

[Crosspost] An AI Pause Is Humanity’s Best Bet For Preventing Extinction (TIME)

otto.barten24 Jul 2023 10:07 UTC

12 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(time.com)

[Crosspost] Unveiling the American Public Opinion on AI Moratorium and Government Intervention: The Impact of Media Exposure

otto.barten8 May 2023 14:09 UTC

7 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[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)

[Crosspost] Organizing a debate with experts and MPs to raise AI xrisk awareness: a possible blueprint

otto.barten19 Apr 2023 11:45 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Paper Summary: The Effectiveness of AI Existential Risk Communication to the American and Dutch Public

otto.barten9 Mar 2023 10:47 UTC

14 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Why Uncontrollable AI Looks More Likely Than Ever

otto.barten and Roman_Yampolskiy

8 Mar 2023 15:41 UTC

18 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(time.com)

Please help us communicate AI xrisk. It could save the world.

otto.barten4 Jul 2022 21:47 UTC

4 points

7 comments2 min readLW link