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What is the AI Control Problem?
Getting help without endangering ourselves One day, AI systems will be better at thinking and acting on that thinking than we are. In essence, that means that they’ll be on the top of the food […]
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Why Malignant Failures are Scary (Skynet 2)
You might have read our recent piece on malignant failure modes and found yourself still wondering: what is it that makes me so afraid of these scenarios? I wanted to drop by and share current […]
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Will we ever have a Skynet?
The Likelihood of a Terminator Scenario So what about a world in which machines see us as a threat and take over? Judging by what experts like Nick Bostrom of Oxford University say, it all […]
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Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence
Some of the main ethical issues with the creation of artificial intelligence have been aptly covered in some of the great science-fiction movies from Hollywood. There is the palpable fear that the creation of artificial […]
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Glossary of Artificial Intelligence Terms
AGI– Artificial General Intelligence or the way of describing the level and form of intelligence that AI systems have now, also termed the period of intelligence before the hypothesized period of Super-intelligence. https://futureoflife.org/2017/10/23/understanding-agi-an-interview-with-hiroshi-yamakawa/ Algorithm– A […]