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Misalignment and misuse: whose values are manifest?

Katja Grace Nov 2020

Are misalignment and misuse helpful catastrophe categories?

Automated intelligence is not AI

Katja Grace Nov 2020

Sometimes we think of ‘artificial intelligence’ as whatever technology ultimately automates human cognitive labor…

Relevant pre-AGI possibilities

Daniel Kokotajlo June 2020
Brainstorm of ways the world could be relevantly different by the time advanced AGI arrives

Map of the first transatlantic telegraph

Description vs simulated prediction

Rick Korzekwa April 2020
What are we trying to do when we look at history to inform forecasting?

Discontinuous progress in history: an update

Katja Grace April 2020
We’ve been looking for historic cases of discontinuously fast technological progress, to help with reasoning about the likelihood and consequences of abrupt progress in AI capabilities. We recently finished expanding this investigation to 37 technological trends. This blog post is a quick update on our findings. See the main page on the research and its outgoing links for more details.

Takeaways from safety by default interviews

Asya Bergal

Last year, several researchers at AI Impacts (primarily Robert Long and I) interviewed prominent researchers inside and outside of the AI safety field who are relatively optimistic about advanced AI being developed safely. These interviews were originally intended to focus narrowly on reasons for optimism, but we ended up covering a variety of topics, including AGI timelines, the likelihood of current techniques leading to AGI, and what the right things to do in AI safety are right now. (…)