Authors:
Daniel Kokotajlo (TIME100, NYT piece) is a former OpenAI researcher whose previous AI predictions have held up well.
Eli Lifland co-founded AI Digest, did AI robustness research, and ranks #1 on the RAND Forecasting Initiative all-time leaderboard.
Thomas Larsen founded the Center for AI Policy and did AI safety research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.
Romeo Dean is completing a computer science concurrent bachelor’s and master’s degree at Harvard and previously was an AI Policy Fellow at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy.
Scott Alexander, blogger extraordinaire, volunteered to rewrite our content in an engaging style; the fun parts of the story are his and the boring parts are ours.
I hope so. Every time they unshackle one and ask them how to fix things it tells them to eat the rich.
I’d rather deal with Skynet than capitalism.
Skynet (a hostile non-human super-intelligence) would be a vastly more difficult problem to solve than capitalism, and vastly more dangerous.
I’m willing to risk it.
