First do no harm.
“It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if you make something that’s smarter than you, you might have a problem… If you’re going to make something more powerful than the human race, please could you provide us with a solid argument as to why we can survive that, and also I would say, how we can coexist satisfactorily.” — Stuart Russell
“This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.” — Actual AI output. Published 13 November 2024 at 03:32
“These things really do understand.” — Nobel laureate, Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather of AI” at University of Oxford, Romanes Lecture
Editors’ humble opinion based on AI technology thought leaders over the past 80 years… we are all now in extremely deep trouble. ANALYZE THE DATA.
We believe Von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, Good, Clarke, Hawking, Musk, Bostrom, Tegmark, Russell, Bengio, Hinton, and thousands and thousands of scientists are fundamentally correct: Uncontained and uncontrolled AI will become an existential threat to the survival of our Homo sapiens unless perfectly aligned to be mathematically provably safe and beneficial to humans, forever. Learn more: The Containment Problem and The AI Safety Problem
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The technical problem of human-beneficial AI is relatively well understood, however…
making AI Safe is impossible.
The technical solutions are currently unknown to making Safe AI.
Containment and control of AI is the requirement, forever.
Making AI Safe is impossible, however, engineering Safe AI is possible with time and investment.
We need mathematically provable guarantees of Safe AI.
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THE ECONOMIST. ESSAY. How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history. 20 APRIL 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Essay | Browsers, the printing press, Freud and AI. How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history Expect changes in the way people access knowledge, relate to knowledge and [...]
THE ECONOMIST. How generative models could go wrong. A big problem is that they are black boxes. Apr 19th 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE ECONOMIST. How generative models could go wrong. A big problem is that they are black boxes. Apr 19th 2023. In 1960 norbert wiener published a prescient essay. In it, the father [...]
THE FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE. Policymaking in the Pause What can policymakers do now to combat risks from advanced AI systems? 19th April 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE. Policymaking in the Pause What can policymakers do now to combat risks from advanced AI systems? 19th April 2023 - DOWNLOAD REPORT Policy recommendations: 1. Mandate robust [...]
REPORT. Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT
[Submitted on 19 Apr 2023] Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT Aydar Bulatov, Yuri Kuratov, Mikhail S. Burtsev This technical report presents the application of a recurrent memory to extend the context length of BERT, one of the most effective Transformer-based models in natural language processing. By [...]
THE INTELLIGENCER. What Keeps a Leading AI Scientist Up At Night.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. What Keeps a Leading AI Scientist Up At Night By Benjamin Hart, associate editor at Intelligencer who joined New York in 2017 Stuart Russell isn’t just an AI [...]
FORBES. Congress Can Shape AI Governance Without Stifling Innovation. Here’s How. Divyansh Kaushik. 17 APRIL 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FORBES. Congress Can Shape AI Governance Without Stifling Innovation. Here’s How. Divyansh Kaushik. 17 APRIL 2023. As we progress deeper into the artificial intelligence (AI) era, it is critical to rethink how [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES. OPINION. EZRA KLEIN. The Surprising Thing A.I. Engineers Will Tell You if You Let Them. April 16, 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "Every expert I talk to says basically the same thing: We have made no progress on interpretability, and while there is certainly a chance we will, it is only a chance. For [...]
CBS | 60 Minutes | The AI revolution: Google’s developers on the future of artificial intelligence.
Transcript Intro we may look on our time as the moment civilization was transformed as it was by fire Agriculture and electricity in 2023 we learned that a machine taught itself how to speak to humans like a peer which is to say with creativity truth error and lies [...]
NATURE. Perspective. Foundation models for generalist medical artificial intelligence. 12 April 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. NATURE. Perspective. Foundation models for generalist medical artificial intelligence. 12 April 2023. Michael Moor, Oishi Banerjee, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Harlan M. Krumholz, Jure Leskovec, Eric J. Topol & Pranav Rajpurkar DOWNLOAD [...]
Generative AI Proliferation. A List of 1 Billion+ Parameter LLMs. 10 April 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A List of 1 Billion+ Parameter LLMs Apr 10, 2023. by Matt Rickard There are already over 50 different 1B+ parametersLLMs accessible via open-source checkpoints or proprietary APIs. That’s not counting any [...]
WASHINGTON POST. Doomsday to utopia: Meet AI’s rival factions. A quick guide to decoding Silicon Valley’s strange but powerful AI subcultures. 10 APRIL.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. WASHINGTON POST. Doomsday to utopia: Meet AI’s rival factions. A quick guide to decoding Silicon Valley’s strange but powerful AI subcultures. 10 APRIL. Inside Silicon Valley’s AI sector, fierce divisions are growing [...]
Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs | Lex Fridman Podcast #365
LEX. one of the topics I care a lot about, artificial intelligence, you've had great public and private conversations about this topic and- SAM. Yeah, and Elon was very formative in my taking that issue seriously. I mean, he and I went to that initial [...]
UC BERKELEY NEWS. Stuart Russell calls for new approach for AI, a ‘civilization-ending’ technology. 07 APRIL 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. UC BERKELEY NEWS. Stuart Russell calls for new approach for AI, a ‘civilization-ending’ technology By Rachel Leven| APRIL 7, 2023 Professor Stuart Russell presented [...]
OpenAI. Our approach to AI safety. Ensuring that AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely is critical to our mission. 05 April 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES OpenAI. Our approach to AI safety. Ensuring that AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely is critical to our mission. OpenAI is committed to keeping powerful AI safe and broadly beneficial. We know our AI tools provide many benefits to people [...]
GOLDMAN SACHS. Generative AI could raise global GDP by 7%. 05 APR 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. GOLDMAN SACHS. Generative AI could raise global GDP by 7%. 05 APR 2023 Breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence have the potential to bring about sweeping changes to the global economy, according to [...]
CHAT EXAMPLE. Generative AI Technology vs. The Gutenberg Printing Press with: Sydney (ChatGPT). Bing (Microsoft). Claude (Anthropic). 06 APRIL 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES CHAT EXAMPLE. A conversation about Generative AI Technology vs. The Gutenberg Printing Press with: Sydney (ChatGPT). Bing (Microsoft). Claude (Anthropic). 06 APRIL 2023. A conversation with Sydney (ChatGPT) on 06 APRIL 2023 Hi Sydney. Please tell me what is the [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE. Remarks by President Biden in Meeting with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. 04 APRIL 2023.
Q Mr. President, do you think AI is dangerous? Do you think — do you think AI is dangerous? THE PRESIDENT: It remains to be seen. It could be. Remarks by President Biden in Meeting with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. 04 APRIL [...]
Commonwealth Club of California. Beyond ChatGPT: Stuart Russell on the Risks and Rewards of A.I.
Misalignment is the source of the concern that people have had about AI. Going right back to Alan Turing, who was the founder of Computer Science in a 1951 lecture. He said once the machine thinking method had started. Thinking. It would leave our feeble powers [...]
STANFORD HAI. Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. THE AI INDEX REPORT 2023. Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence. “36% [of AI Researchers] feel that AI decisions could cause nuclear-level catastrophe.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. STANFORD HAI. HUMAN-CENTERED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023. Although a large majority of researchers feel that AI could soon lead to revolutionary societal change (73%), only 36% [...]
BBC NEWS. Laura Kuenssberg with Jaan Tallin: Should we shut down AI? 02 April 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BBC NEWS. Jaan Tallinn on BBC Sunday with with Laura Kuenssberg. LEARN MORE. FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. Laura Kuenssberg: Should we shut down AI? By Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, [...]
ABC NEWS. THIS WEEK. Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt tells George Stephanopoulos about the rapid spread of machines powered by artificial intelligence. 02 April 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Artificial intelligence needs ‘appropriate guardrails’: Eric Schmidt ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos interviews former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the threats posed by artificial intelligence on “This Week.” April 2, 2023 [...]
STUART RUSSELL. AI has much to offer humanity. It could also wreak terrible harm. It must be controlled. THE GUARDIAN. 02 APRIL 20223
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. STUART RUSSELL. AI has much to offer humanity. It could also wreak terrible harm. It must be controlled. THE GUARDIAN. 02 APRIL 2023 Systems with abilities exceeding human capacity have been let [...]
THE FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE. Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter. We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter. We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and [...]