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Racing through a minefield: the AI deployment problem

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Push AI forward too fast, and catastrophe could occur. Too slow, and someone else less cautious could do it. Is there a safe course?

Click lower right to download or find on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, etc. In previous pieces, I argued that there's a real and large risk of AI systems' developing dangerous goals of their own and defeating all of humanity - at least in the absence of specific efforts to prevent this from happening. I discussed why it could be hard to build AI systems without this risk and how it might be doable . The “AI alignment problem” refers 1 to a technical problem: how can we design a powerful AI system that behaves as intended, rather than forming its own dangerous aims ? This post is going to

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