This post will be updated over the coming weeks. In his 2011 paper, Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures, Eliezer Yudkowsky posits that aligning artificial general intelligence (AGI) with human values necessitates embedding the complex intricacies of human ethics into AI systems. He warns against oversimplification, suggesting that without a comprehensive inheritance…
Norm-sensitive cooperation might beat brute-force optimisation when aligning AI with the complex layers of human value – and possibly cosmic ones too. Nick Bostrom suggests that AI systems designed with humility and a cooperative orientation are more likely to navigate the complex web of human and potentially cosmic norms than those driven by rigid utility…
Surviving an intelligence explosion is just Level One. Another layer to the Great Filter might be whether our civilisation, or a greedy AI singleton can grow up enough not to become a cosmic jerk. You might brute-force your way to technological maturity, but that doesn’t mean you get a seat at the galactic grown-up table….
I just finished Mo Gawdat’s book Scarey Smart. The overview says: By 2049 AI will be a billion times more intelligent than humans. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. This book offers a blueprint, pointing the way to…
In short: Satiable values have diminishing returns with more resources, while insatiable values always want more, potentially leading to risky AI behaviour – it seems likely that AI with insatiable values could make existential trades, like gambling the world for a chance to double resources. Therefore potentially design AI with satiable values to ensure stability,…
Key Points Understanding UBI and Its Challenges Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a system where everyone gets regular cash payments, no strings attached. It’s seen as a way to help people in an AI-driven economy where jobs might disappear. But there are worries. For example, if landlords know everyone has extra money, they might raise…
Super excited that I’ll be interviewing Nick Bostrom again in a few days – last time was in 2012 (on XRisks of AI and the Simulation Argument). This time we will cover topics that range from Superintelligence to Deep Utopia. Since Nick Bostrom wrote Superintelligence, AI has surged from theoretical speculation to powerful, world-shaping reality….
About “I argue that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future. That means that the prospect of AI welfare and moral patienthood, i.e. of AI systems with their own interests and moral significance, is no longer an issue only for sci-fi or the…
Nick Bostrom addresses concerns about biased influence on the extrapolation base in his discussions on indirect normativity (IN – i.e., an approach where the AI deduces ideal values or states of affairs rather than running with current values and states of affairs) esp. coherent extrapolated volition (CEV) and value alignment in his magnum opus Superintelligence….
Back to basics. The “is” is what science and rationality tell us about the world and logic – and “ought” represents moral obligations, values, or prescriptions about how the world should be, rather than how it is. What is an “is”? The “is” refers to factual statements about the world, encompassing empirical observations, logical truths…
