“Align AI to human values” sounds sensible, even comforting. But once you look closely, it becomes far less clear that this is the right target. What are “higher values”? I don’t mean values I personally approve of, but with nicer branding – I mean better-justified values discovered through improved moral and epistemic reflection. What are…
Anders Sandberg discusses ideas & values and where we get them from, mindsets for progress, and that we are living in a unique era of technological change but also, importantly we are aware that we are living in an era of great change. Is there a direction in ethics? Is morality real? If so, how…
One can think of Existential Risk as a subcategory of a Global Catastrophic Risk – while GCR’s are really bad, civilization has the potential to recover from such a global catastrophic disaster. An existential Risk is one in which there is no chance of recoverability. An example of the sort of disaster that fits the…