On AI Safety Jargon - by Benjamin Arnold - Turning Flukes
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Or, why there’s no need to say ‘heuristics’.
Paul Klee, 1939 (also me at times) When I was first getting acquainted with AI safety, one of the early challenges I encountered was the lexicon. I’m not from the EA-Rationalist-LessWrong-osphere; my prior familiarity with that world consisted mostly of knowing that Sam Bankman-Fried got Tom Brady to help him do fraud. The jargon was a shift; coming from a corporate background, I’m used to building the plane as we fly it, people moving my cheese, and servant leaders iterating on features that delight. When I started doing my AI reading, I found myself - like anyone else entering a new field…
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