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AI Risk
Goodhart's Law
Corrigibility
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Treacherous Turn
Programming
2017-2019 AI Alignment Prize
Satisficer
LessWrong Event Transcripts
Modeling People
Petrov Day
83 posts
World Optimization
Threat Models
Existential Risk
Coordination / Cooperation
Academic Papers
AI Safety Camp
Practical
Ethics & Morality
Symbol Grounding
Security Mindset
Sharp Left Turn
Fiction
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Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case
KatjaGrace
2mo
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You can still fetch the coffee today if you're dead tomorrow
davidad
11d
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AI will change the world, but won’t take it over by playing “3-dimensional chess”.
boazbarak
28d
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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6mo
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Niceness is unnatural
So8res
2mo
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Worlds Where Iterative Design Fails
johnswentworth
3mo
26
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AGI ruin scenarios are likely (and disjunctive)
So8res
4mo
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What does it mean for an AGI to be 'safe'?
So8res
2mo
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The alignment problem from a deep learning perspective
Richard_Ngo
4mo
13
91
Oversight Misses 100% of Thoughts The AI Does Not Think
johnswentworth
4mo
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Eli's review of "Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?"
elifland
2mo
0
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Empowerment is (almost) All We Need
jacob_cannell
1mo
43
31
Instrumental convergence in single-agent systems
Edouard Harris
2mo
4
87
Let's See You Write That Corrigibility Tag
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6mo
67
189
The next decades might be wild
Marius Hobbhahn
5d
21
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AI Neorealism: a threat model & success criterion for existential safety
davidad
5d
0
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Thoughts on AGI organizations and capabilities work
Rob Bensinger
13d
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Deconfusing Direct vs Amortised Optimization
beren
18d
6
517
It Looks Like You're Trying To Take Over The World
gwern
9mo
125
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Refining the Sharp Left Turn threat model, part 2: applying alignment techniques
Vika
25d
4
292
A central AI alignment problem: capabilities generalization, and the sharp left turn
So8res
6mo
48
144
An Update on Academia vs. Industry (one year into my faculty job)
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
3mo
18
48
Some advice on independent research
Marius Hobbhahn
1mo
4
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Six Dimensions of Operational Adequacy in AGI Projects
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6mo
65
136
AI coordination needs clear wins
evhub
3mo
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Don't leave your fingerprints on the future
So8res
2mo
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AI X-risk >35% mostly based on a recent peer-reviewed argument
michaelcohen
1mo
31
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Linkpost: Github Copilot productivity experiment
Daniel Kokotajlo
3mo
4