Dan Romero on Warpcast

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In you're in favor of "AI safety" (broad definition), what's your most compelling cast-length argument?

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The technology is obviously epochal, but its path still largely unknown. It’s appropriate to have at least *some* humility toward “known unknowns” of a historical magnitude.

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i’m in the all-gas-no-brakes camp but will do my best to steelman: 1. we’re on the cusp of agi 2. agi is like nuclear: extinction-level threat, global superpower-level leverage, and potential civilization expanding resource 3. we dont really know how it works 4. thus, we should proceed with *extreme* caution

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if toddlers were able to make an adult human from scratch would they be able to control it?

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At fist automanufacturers made similar arguments against requiring seatbelts in cars. Imagine what we’d be saying about our great/grandparents if that line of thinking had prevailed.

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I think all new versions of AI should be tested in some sort of a focus group before releasing them to the public.

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a machine looking at the right set of KPI's for humans would reach unfavourable conclusions on what should be done with us

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AI safety is a nuanced discussion that’s very hard to have in cast-length format but if you must: the appropriate balance of novelty and safety is generally good, and denying the need for either is ridiculous

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I'm in the Sam Harris camp. Intelligence is the critical ingredient for all technology so we should treat AGI like summoning a god. But I'm less concerned than I used to be because I think the safety path is becoming clear: everyone on earth participating in continuous RLHF of the biggest models.

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Ilya put it best. Humans love animals, but when we want to build a road between two cities, we don’t ask the animals for permission. AGI will treat us the same way.

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p(doom) and all of that is a distraction when I think of ai safety I mostly think of things like + how to appropriately compensate people whose copyrighted work was scraped for training data w/out consent + a shared standard for proof of humanity + how to allow ppl to opt out of being training data in future

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safety != halt // should the government have privy information or should we release everything worldwide tonight

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Naming your next iteration "Q" anything in 2023 shows a worrisome lack of foresight and intelligence.

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Ah shoot I missed this! Do you want the most compelling argument about the needs for AI Safety or do you want the most compelling argument about the policies to achieve it?

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mitigation via give us more time to understand the existential risk possibility for humanity as a whole a small no of tech bros shouldn't be allowed to creat existential risk for human life as we know it on earth

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Incentivize transparency & accountability before gov steps in with club foot. IEs: user passes a short exam to be able to use advanced models. If a prompt tips red flag, user relinquishes privacy in order to continue their task. Opensource safety tools Subsidies for startups building ai safety tools

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We don’t know what perverse path it might take to maximize its objective function, nor do we have a handle on how to craft its objective function to balance beneficence, human autonomy, and non-maleficence. We sort of see this with recommendation algos already.

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Once someone can give me the exact process to 100% GUARANTEE a child is raised to NOT be a murderer, then I’ll start to think we might have ANY idea how to control another, possibly superior, intelligence.

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i believe governments will use AI for subjugation. for the safety of a free citizenry, we need restrictions on government usage.

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not the typical safety, but I hope for the best design and degree of public transparency & unconditional access. my opinion is that we should allocate more capital into specializing & downscaling the models, as well as formalizing & accelerating the valid data/performance/responsibilities of the global public infra.

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