Machines of Ruthless Efficiency
Future LLMs have the potential to cause significant harm due to their ruthless effiency. I'm worried this will happen, and discuss the ways in which it might.
Machines of Ruthless Efficiency Main Papers Talks Code Writing Writing Machines of Ruthless Efficiency by Nicholas Carlini 2025-03-17 I think we should be worried about the future of AI/machine learning/language models. Yes, I am very excited by the technical potential of recent language models [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. But this technical optimism does not necessitate societal optimism. In fact, in my case, it's exactly inversely correlated. So in this post I want to talk through why I am worried, because I was not worried five years ago. And so in many ways, this is a message to my past self---what I wo
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