Boaz Barak • Six Thoughts On AI Safety
https://windowsontheory.org/2025/01/24/six-thoughts-on-ai-safety/

My Comment —
https://windowsontheory.org/2025/01/24/six-thoughts-on-ai-safety/#comment-77842

In talking about any technology, the critical risk factor is not the characteristics of the technology itself but the character and objectives of the humans who control it. We need to look at the character and objectives of the person with his hand hanging limp just off the Bible at the recent U.S. Presidential Inauguration, and we need to look at the characters and objectives of the people lined up at his “6”, as they say, and we need to ask ourselves if humanity is safe from any technology they set to work toward their objectives. I mean actual objectives not espoused objectives.

#AI #AISafety #AlgorithmicIdiocracy #Felon47 #Bezorg #Muskolini #Zuckerborg

Six Thoughts On AI Safety

[Crossposted on lesswrong, see here for prior posts] The following statements seem to be both important for AI safety and are not widely agreed upon. These are my opinions, not those of my employer…

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Re: Scott Aaronson • Sad Times for AI Safety
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8367

Re: Making the ‘Invisible Hand’ Visible
https://our.oakland.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/213e10a9-51e5-4a87-896b-b5ead3acf2bc/content

OhMyGoodness Says:

Thank you for the link and I enjoyed reading through it. My hyperbole was intended to provide a Mines of Moria like description for the current halls of academia. 🙂

Dear OMG,

The faults in Academe and either vein of AI are not where they delve too deep but where they cleave too close to the surface.

#AI #AGI #AIHype #CorporateAI #OpenAI
#AlgorithmicIdiocracy #ScottAaronson

Sad times for AI safety

Many of you will have seen the news that Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, the groundbreaking AI safety bill that overwhelmingly passed the California legislature. Newsom gave a disingenuou…

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Re: Scott Aaronson • Sad Times for AI Safety
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8367

OhMyGoodness Says:

The groves of Academe no longer exist. It has become a dark and foreboding place frozen by the relentless winds of Apocalypse.

Dear OMG,

No true mathematician will object to a little hyperbole, not if it focuses attention on the generative dynamics, and as it happens the forces pulling Academe out of kilter are not unrelated to the ones warping AI out of alignment.

On that score, see the following most excellent essay.

Making the ‘Invisible Hand’ Visible
The Case for Dialogue About Academic Capitalism
Susan M. Awbrey

https://our.oakland.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/213e10a9-51e5-4a87-896b-b5ead3acf2bc/content

#AI #AGI #AIHype #CorporateAI #OpenAI
#AlgorithmicIdiocracy #ScottAaronson

Sad times for AI safety

Many of you will have seen the news that Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, the groundbreaking AI safety bill that overwhelmingly passed the California legislature. Newsom gave a disingenuou…

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Re: Scott Aaronson • Sad Times for AI Safety
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8367

I think what happened here is a lot of otherwise savvy people missed the significance of AI's transfer from the modestly ethical groves of Academe to the dark satanic engines of corporate industry. When I see people still talking about “AI Safety” and the “Alignment of AI with Human Interests” instead of the “Alignment of Corporate Agendas with Human Interests”, it tells me those people are still missing the bigger picture.

#AI #AGI #AIHype #CorporateAI #OpenAI
#AlgorithmicIdiocracy #ScottAaronson

Sad times for AI safety

Many of you will have seen the news that Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, the groundbreaking AI safety bill that overwhelmingly passed the California legislature. Newsom gave a disingenuou…

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