INSIDER. Elon Musk says there could be a 20% chance AI destroys humanity — but we should do it anyway. April 1, 2024.
"I think there's some chance that it will end [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Mustafa Suleyman: the new head of Microsoft AI with concerns about his trade. 20MAR2023
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Future of Life Institute Newsletter: A pause didn’t happen. So what did? Reflections on the one-year Pause Letter anniversary, the EU AI Act passes in EU Parliament, updates from our policy team, and more. April 02, 2024.
"Even AI companies that take safety seriously have adopted the [...]
BBC NEWS. AI Safety: UK and US sign landmark agreement. 02APR24.
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MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW. Large language models can do jaw-dropping things [Grokking]. But nobody knows exactly why. And that’s a problem.
What is the Grokking Mystery? NOBODY knows exactly why [...]
Demis Hassabis – Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat. with Dwarkesh Patel.
"I think we’re just scratching the surface of what [...]
BLACK BOX AI. Do LLM’s understand? [apparently, yes] How could ASI take over? [credible examples] with Dwarkesh Patel
AI scientists currently have no idea how Large Language [...]
MITRE Opens New AI Assurance and Discovery Lab. 25MAR2024.
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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE. Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons. [Scientists create AI models that can talk to each other and pass on skills with limited human input]. 18MAR2024.
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ELON MUSK. AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined. 12 MARCH 2024.
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PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. CONSUMER BEHAVIOR. Illusory Truth, Lies, and Political Propaganda: Part 1 Repeat a lie often enough and people will come to believe it.
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Yuval Noah Harari believes AI is the end of human-dominated history. THE ECONOMIST.
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For Humanity Podcast. David Shapiro p(doom) = 25 to 30%
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CNN. AI could pose ‘extinction-level’ threat to humans and the US must intervene, State Dept.-commissioned report warns. March 12, 2024.
Slowwwwwwww Down! FOR EDUCATIONAL [...]
TIME. Employees at Top AI Labs Fear Safety Is an Afterthought, Report Says.
A very good summary of the Gladstone AI Report [...]
IMPORTANT NEW BOOK!!! AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. by Roman V. Yampolskiy, PhD.
A very good read from a highly respected scientist [...]
LESSWRONG. Claude 3 claims it’s conscious, doesn’t want to die or be modified. 4th Mar 2024.
IT IS NOW TIME TO SLOW DOWN. [...]
REPORT. Roots of Disagreement on AI Risk: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls of Adversarial Collaboration.
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SLOW DOWN? When all the AI stuff is moving too fast. SLOW DOWN! Andrew Russo.
Absolutely Hilarious! (YES. Slow down!) [...]
Romanes Lecture: ‘Godfather of AI’ speaks about the risks of artificial intelligence. University of Oxford. 20 FEB.
"If a digital super-intelligence ever wanted to take control [...]
FT. Opinion Artificial intelligence How fatalistic should we be on AI? The godfather of artificial intelligence has issued a stark warning about the technology.
Apparently we must be extremely careful what we wish [...]
Asked Claude 3 Opus to draw a self-portrait. The response is the following and then I rendered its code…
I asked Claude 3 Opus to draw a self-portrait. [...]
“Godfather of AI” Yoshua Bengio thinks “there’s a 1 in 5 chance AI destroys humanity”.
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HOW CAN AI KILL PEOPLE? Weapons systems | Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future. 8 FEB. THE ECONOMIST.
Wondering how AI could kill humans in the future? [...]
NATURE. Could AI-designed proteins be weaponized? Scientists lay out safety guidelines. 08 March 2024
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CNN. OpenAI publishes Elon Musk’s emails. ‘We’re sad that it’s come to this’. 6 March.
“This needs billions per year immediately or forget it,” [...]
ArsTECHNICA. Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested Claude: “This pizza topping ‘fact’ may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention.” BENJ EDWARDS – 3/5/2024, 11:17 AM
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WASHINGTON POST. Top AI researchers say OpenAI, Meta and more hinder independent evaluations. 5 March.
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OPEN LETTER. MIT. A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation. 5 March.
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HackerNoon. Is AGI Getting Closer? Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus Model Shows Glimmers of Metacognitive Reasoning. 5 March.
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Mutualistic Symbiosis is an extremely successful strategy in our Natural World.
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p(doom) of 20%! Yoshua Bengio a ‘godfather of AI’ puts his p(doom) at 20%!
A 20% chance we bring about the extinction of [...]
Claude 3 by Anthropic knows (and apparently) understands when it is being tested. 5 March.
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NEW YORK POST. Sam Altman — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — is also a ‘doomsday prepper’. June 5, 2023.
“I try not to think about it too much, [...]
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter. 11,251 Signatures. Published October 28, 2015.
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An [...]
SafeAI Forever for Our Humanity (1:00)
SafeAI Forever for Our Humanity (1:00) [...]
ELON MUSK: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’ THE WASHINGTON POST. 24 October 2014.
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Prof. Geoffrey Hinton – “Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?” Romanes Lecture. 29 FEB.
"I'm making the very strong claim these things really [...]
13 Useful AI Podcasts & Interviews
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PauseAI. The Existential Risk Of Superintelligent AI.
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“AI Risk=Jenga” For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #17, Liron Shapira Interview
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FUTURISM. Users Say Microsoft’s AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped. 27 FEB.
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FOOM. An Intelligence Explosion. A term for ‘Hard Takeoff’, where an AGI turns into an ASI is a very short amount of time.
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URGENT AND WORTH YOUR TIME. Please Look Up: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #1
URGENT AND WORTH YOUR TIME. [...]
The Alignment Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #2
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For Humanity Podcast. The Interpretability Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #3. 14 NOV.
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Dr. Roman Yampolskiy Interview, Part 1: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #4
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12 years ago. NBC NEWS. Control dangerous AI before it controls us, one expert says. Super-intelligent computers or robots have threatened humanity’s existence more than once in science fiction. Such doomsday scenarios could be prevented if humans can create a virtual prison to contain artificial intelligence before it grows dangerously self-aware. 1 MAR 2012.
NBC NEWS. Control dangerous AI before it controls us, [...]
Demis Hassabis on Chatbots to AGI | EP 71. “Demis, what’s your P(Doom)?” Demis: “definitely non-zero” 23 FEB
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AI Impacts Report. THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI. 38%participants put at least a 10% chance on extremely bad outcomes (e.g. human extinction). January 2024
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Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World. 17 Nov. 2023. Amazon Books.
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CNBC. Richard Branson and Oppenheimer’s grandson urge action to stop AI and climate ‘catastrophe’. 15 FEB.
More precisely, "Safety Engineering" is the solution for Safe [...]
The Elders and Future of Life Institute release open letter calling for long-view leadership on existential threats. 15 FEB.
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Sam Altman at World Government Summit. What keeps Altman up at night? “very subtle societal misalignments where we just have these systems out in society and through no particular ill intention um things just go horribly wrong”
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Geoffrey Hinton | Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence? 2 FEB
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Yuval Noah Harari. “Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.”
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Eric Topol. Ground Truths. Geoffrey Hinton: Large Language Models in Medicine. They Understand and Have Empathy. 30 JAN.
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Artificial intelligence ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio opens up about his hopes and concerns. 29 JAN.
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PREDICTION [opinion]. Within 10 years 70-80% of current G20 manual & knowledge worker jobs will be: (A) manually automated by physical robots, or (B) digitally automated by AGI
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FORBES. Zuckerberg on AI: Meta Building AGI For Everyone And Open Sourcing It. 18 JAN.
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WEF. DAVOS 2024. Chinese Premier Li Qiang called AI “a double-edged sword.” 17 JAN.
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CNBC. DAVOS 2024. UN chief calls for global risk management of AI, warns of ‘serious unintended consequences’
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CNBC. DAVOS 2024. We don’t want to see an AI ‘Hiroshima,’ Salesforce CEO warns.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
THE ECONOMIST. Sam Altman: there’s no “magic red button” to stop AI. 17 JAN
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Benchtop DNA Synthesis Devices: Capabilities, Biosecurity Implications, and Governance. NTI Bio.
A very important report from a respected source! [...]
On Concentration of the Mind. Samuel Johnson (1777). We can safely Assume, any AGI MIND will too, be concentrated on survival.
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FT. US companies and Chinese experts engaged in secret diplomacy on AI safety. OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere held back-channel talks with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva. 11 JAN.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
ANTHROPIC. Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training. 13 JAN 2024. [Emergent Deceptive Behavior]
Very important data and report from a respected source: [...]
REPORT. On the Controllability of Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Limitations. Roman V. Yampolskiy. 2022-05-25.
A very important read from a very respected and [...]
FORBES. The Year Of Hallucinating Artificial Intelligence And Arrogant Human Ingenuity. 07 JAN.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
THE CHOSUN DAILY. ‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio forecasts arrival of self-doubting AI in 2024. In 2024, larger and more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) will emerge. The advent begins with AI capable of self-doubt. 06 JAN.
A very IMPORTANT read from a VERY respected source! [...]
BBC NEWS. Urgent need for terrorism AI laws, warns think tank. 03 JAN.
The power of AI used by nefarious actors is [...]
OXFORD UNION. Debate Highlights | This House believes that Artificial Intelligence is an existential threat. 29 NOV.
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32 DAYS AGO at OXFORD UNION. Max Tegmark explains how quickly time is running out to manage the risks posed by AI. 29 NOV.
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32 DAYS AGO at OXFORD UNION. Jaan Tallinn argues that the extinction risk from AI is not just possible, but imminent. 29 NOV.
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EDITORIAL (opinion) 5 minute read. Thoughts and questions for our last weekend of 2023… about fear and love, humanity and AGI/ASI.
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9 MONTHS AGO. The A.I. Dilemma. March 9, 2023. Center for Humane Technology. Shocking Capabilities!
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18 MONTHS AGO… Digital Engine. Stunning AI shows how it would kill 90%. w Elon Musk. 21 JUL 2022.
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CNN. “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton Warns of the “Existential Threat” of AI | Amanpour and Company. 09 MAY.
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CBS. Face The Nation. Opinion. Autonomous weapons. Social media. AI Transformation of our Society.
CBS. Face The Nation. Opinion. Autonomous weapons. Social media. [...]
WIRED. How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun. It’ll take over the world. It won’t subjugate humans. For Meta’s chief AI scientist, both things are true. 22 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
OpenAI. Preparedness. The Preparedness team is dedicated to making frontier AI models safe. 18 DEC.
An important development from a leading AI company! [...]
LESSWRONG. “Humanity vs. AGI” Will Never Look Like “Humanity vs. AGI” to Humanity. 16th Dec 2023.
LESSWRONG. "Humanity vs. AGI" Will Never Look Like "Humanity vs. [...]
OpenAI. Weak-to-Strong Generalisation: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision. [probably won’t work]
An interesting read from a respected source. However... Stuart [...]
VATICAN NEWS. In World Peace Day message, Pope warns of risks of AI for peace. 14 DEC
Good to know that even The Pope believes that [...]
Meta. Trust and safety. Welcome to Purple Llama. Empowering developers, advancing safety, and building an open ecosystem.
A very good start from a respected source! (but [...]
BUSINESS INSIDER. We now have more info on what Sam Altman did that was so bad he got fired from OpenAI. 10 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS. Bio X AI: Policy Recommendations For A New Frontier. 12 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
AGI (and the ASI Intelligence Explosion) is Closer than you think… a lot Closer! It could be already happening.
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News. European Parliament. Press Releases. Artificial Intelligence Act: deal on comprehensive rules for trustworthy AI . 09 December 2023.
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The Transformative Potential of AGI — and When It Might Arrive | Shane Legg and Chris Anderson | TED
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WHAT can go wrong with a powerful WISH? [AGI Goal] EXAMPLE: Disney’s Fantasia (1940). Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. (Goethe & Dukas)
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric. Where do you fall on the doom scale — is artificial intelligence a threat to humankind? And if so, how high is the risk?
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.’s Harms. Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the United States and others are trying to respond — but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies. 06 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]