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Four Predictions About OpenAI’s Plans To Retain Nonprofit Control
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Four Predictions About OpenAI's Plans To Retain Nonprofit Control An apparent victory for opponents of the company's for-profit ambitions may be more complicated GARRISON LOVELY MAY 05, 2025 After months of controversy [...]
SB-1047. The AI Bill that Broke Silicon Valley
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. SB-1047. The AI Bill that Broke Silicon Valley The inside story of California's SB-1047, the AI safety bill that exposed Silicon Valley's deep ideological divides and [...]
Reinforcement Learning. A Comprehensive Overview. Kevin P. Murphy. March 25, 2025. arXiv
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Overview. Kevin P. Murphy March 25, 2025 This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based method, [...]
Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED Technologist Tristan Harris has an urgent question: What if the way we’re [...]
Zuck and Satya: “Agents will write all code” | Matthew Berman
"That's the intelligence explosion. Once AI can iterate and self-improve then it is just a function of how many agents we can throw at that self-improvement and then it is exponential by nature." --- Matthew Berman FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. [...]
The Most Likely AI Doom Scenario — with Jim Babcock, LessWrong Team. Doom Debates. 30 Apr 2025
Jim Babcock's P(doom) bottom line = 50% FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Most Likely AI Doom Scenario — with Jim Babcock, LessWrong Team. Doom Debates 30 Apr 2025 [...]
AI says why it will kill us all. Experts agree. Digital Engine
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI says why it will kill us all. Experts agree. Digital Engine The two top AIs have calculated similar chances of our extinction with timeframes and [...]
Yoshua Bengio | Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks | Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture | Simons Institute
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Yoshua Bengio | Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks | Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture | Simons Institute Yoshua Bengio (IVADO - Mila - Université de Montréal) [...]
Yoshua Bengio on Dissecting The Extinction Threat of AI Eye on AI https://youtu.be/0RknkWgd6Ck
"I would just like us to be wise and walk this fine line where we can get the benefits or at least a large number of them but avoid the catastrophic outcomes. So yeah, I'm not saying it's going to be easy." FOR EDUCATIONAL [...]
“Godfather of AI” has new warning about artificial intelligence: “You should worry” CBS News
"we're at this very very special point in history where in a relatively short time everything might totally change at a change of a scale we've never seen before." FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS. ADVANCING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION FOR AMERICAN YOUTH. Executive Order. April 23, 2025
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Gemini 2.5 Pro Summary: Presidential Action on Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth (April 2025) Introduction On April [Date], 2025, the President issued a landmark Presidential Action outlining a comprehensive national [...]
Experts predict exactly how AI will wipe us out. Stephen Fry.
"The good news is that with sufficient awareness of the risks, controlling AI development would be easier than it seems. The compute required for AI is, like enriched uranium, a scarce and hard to produce resource. It can be quantified and audited. And AI chips are more manageable than uranium [...]
Dario Amodei. The Urgency of Interpretability. April 2025
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Urgency of Interpretability Dario Amodai, April 2025 In the decade that I have been working on AI, I’ve watched it grow from a tiny academic field to arguably the most important [...]
VOC. Dutch East India Company. A Company Bigger Than Apple, Google, Meta and Tesla Combined.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. VOC. Dutch East India Company. A Company Bigger Than Apple, Google, Meta and Tesla Combined. 00:00 – The Most Powerful Company You've Never Heard Of 01:00 [...]
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says world is not prepared for what’s coming | CBS Mornings
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says world is not prepared for what's coming | CBS Mornings Geoffrey Hinton, whose work shaped modern artificial intelligence, says companies are [...]
UK AISI. RepliBench: measuring autonomous replication capabilities in AI systems. Apr 22, 2025
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Download the Full Report UK AISI. RepliBench: measuring autonomous replication capabilities in AI systems. A comprehensive benchmark to detect emerging replication abilities in AI systems and provide a quantifiable [...]
What Will AI Look Like in 2027? | Interview Hard Fork
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. What Will AI Look Like in 2027? | Interview Hard Fork The A.I. researcher Daniel Kokotajlo returns to the show to discuss a new set of [...]
Developers of AI Superintelligence Know It Endangers Humanity: Roman Yampolskiy | British Thought Leaders
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Developers of AI Superintelligence Know It Endangers Humanity: Roman Yampolskiy | British Thought Leaders NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with AI safety expert Professor Roman Yampolskiy, who [...]
10 [dumb] Reasons to Ignore AI Safety (by Prof Stuart Russell). Robert Miles. AI Safety
A very good analysis from a respected source! (Russell and Miles) Ten [incorrect and/or absurd] reasons not to care about AI Safety. Reason one. We'll never actually make artificial general intelligence. Reason two. Well maybe we will make AGI at some point but it's far too soon to worry about [...]
The OTHER AI Alignment Problem: Mesa-Optimizers and Inner Alignment. Robert Miles AI Safety
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The OTHER AI Alignment Problem: Mesa-Optimizers and Inner Alignment. Robert Miles AI Safety 244,857 views 16 Feb 2021 This "Alignment" thing turns out to be [...]
Google DeepMind CEO Worries About a “Worst-Case” A.I Future, But Is Staying Optimistic. TIME
TIME. What keeps you up at night? HASSABIS. For me it's this question of international standards and cooperation and also not just between countries but also between companies as we get, and researchers, as we get towards the final steps of AGI, And I think we're on the cusp [...]
Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation? Robert Miles. AI Safety.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation? Robert Miles. AI Safety. Corporations are kind of like AIs, if you squint. How hard do you [...]
Why Everyone Suddenly Believes in AGI by 2027 | Species | Documenting AGI
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Why Everyone Suddenly Believes in AGI by 2027 | Species | Documenting AGI Detailed sources The report this video is based on, by Leopold Aschenbrenner. [...]