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How to Not Lose Control of AI | Robert Wright & Max Tegmark | Nonzero
"Rule Number One. Don't build what you can't control." --- Max Tegmark FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. How to Not Lose Control of AI | Robert Wright & Max Tegmark | Nonzero [...]
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on How A.I. Is Reshaping Google | Interview Hard Fork
Definition of AGI: "Do all the things the human brain can do, even theoretically." FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on How A.I. Is Reshaping Google | Interview Hard Fork [...]
LESSWRONG. Interpretability Will Not Reliably Find Deceptive AI. by Neel Nanda.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Read the Post and Comments here LESSWRONG. Interpretability Will Not Reliably Find Deceptive AI by Neel Nanda 4th May 2025 AI Alignment Forum Disclaimer: Post written in a personal capacity. These are [...]
AI Is Flooding Science With Fake Research | Sabine Hossenfelder
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI Is Flooding Science With Fake Research | Sabine Hossenfelder AI slop has already become prevalent across the internet (and in the classroom). But according to [...]
Thirteen (13) SERIOUS PROBLEMS with the AI Industry and The probability of Human Extinction if-when control is LOST.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THIRTEEN (13) EXTREMELY SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH AI (+wikipedia links) 1. Hallucination PROBLEM Hallucinations are usually convincing, hard to detect and costly to remove. False data is worse than no data at all. [...]
AI’s Disturbing Behaviors Will Keep You Up At Night | The Young Turks
YES- it is time to worry, and act. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI's Disturbing Behaviors Will Keep You Up At Night | The Young Turks One [...]
Why Are We So Violent? History of Humankind
In nature, violence for self-preservation is prevalent. Why? Survival of the fittest. Natural selection is an unstoppable force. A superior power of superintelligence will naturally seek survival, dominion and control - over humans. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
AI is getting smarter—but it’s still not aligned. Dr Waku
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI is getting smarter—but it's still not aligned. Dr Waku There is a lot of online discussion about AI safety, but not much clarity on why [...]
The Center for AI Safety. Statement on AI Risk. AI experts and public figures express their concern about AI risk. (2023)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. AI experts, journalists, policymakers, and the public are increasingly discussing a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI. Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most [...]
Our Definition of SAFE Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) = WIN all 12 International Science Olympiads WITH mathematically provable compliance to EU AI Act: General Purpose AI Code of Practice.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. NEW: A definition of AGI. Bengio et al. Our Definition of SAFE Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) 1. PASS the Turing Test (DONE) 2. WIN all 12 International Science Olympiads Mathematics Physics Chemistry [...]
Keep The Future Human by Anthony Aguirre
Stuart Russell OBE, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Director, Center for Human-Compatible AI "Keep the Future Human makes three very simple points. First, creating artificial intelligence is suicidal. Second, we're doing it because we think it will yield enormous benefits. Third, we can get those enormous benefits [...]
Provably Safe AI – Steve Omohundro
Excellent presentation by a highly respected AI scientist! FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Provably Safe AI – Steve Omohundro Speaker: Steve Omohundro Session Description: We'll discuss an [...]
Waiting for AGI (not) | Why Humans Can’t Build God-like AI
PROMPT. You are an expert scientist in AI and deeply knowledgable in X-RISK and P(doom). You are also an artist, writer and philospher with deep commitment to flourishing of humans. Your task is to analyze and understand the famous Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot] for fun and [...]
Johnson’s Quote on Impending Death: “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. PROMPT: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 who wrote (or said): “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” and [...]
“My intuition is: we’re toast. This is the actual end of history.” — Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton
Who wants to be toast? Nobody Sane. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. NEW STATESMAN. Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation? The founders of AI are divided over [...]
Yuval Noah Harari on Trust and AI. Reid Hoffman. Ari Melber on MSNBC.
"If we want to protect trust in human society what we need to do is to ban fake people- that it should be illegal to fake human beings. You know for thousands of years governments had very strict laws and regulations against faking money because they knew that if you [...]
LaWZero. Safe AI for Humanity
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Introducing LawZero "LawZero is a nonprofit organization working on solving the scientific problem of how do we design AI that will be safe. Currently AI is [...]
Beware… The Treacherous Turn
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The treacherous turn (page 116) Nick Bostrom (2014). Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies download pdf With the help of the concept of convergent instrumental value, we can see the flaw in one idea [...]
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Economic Risks, Federal Reserve, China Business | Bloomberg Television
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Economic Risks, Federal Reserve, China Business | Bloomberg Television JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon says he can’t rule out that [...]
Claude 4 is really weird… (Industry Reactions). Matthew Berman
"Anything is possible with non-deterministic environments... if it has shown to be possible it is possible." --- Matthew Berman FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Claude 4 is really weird... (Industry Reactions). [...]
How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken | Dwarkesh Patel
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "It's so economically valuable, and sufficiently easy to collect data on all of these different jobs, these white collar job tasks... we should expect to see them automated within the next five [...]
You Have No Idea How Terrified AI Scientists Actually Are. Species | Documenting AGI
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. You Have No Idea How Terrified AI Scientists Actually Are. Species | Documenting AGI Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B... FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE [...]
“You can’t fetch the coffee if you’re dead.” — Prof. Stuart Russell, “Human Compatible”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "You can’t fetch the coffee if you’re dead." --- Prof. Stuart Russell, "Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control Scientifically observed Emergent Goals and Subgoals: [...]