The Two Cultures of AI Safety: Catastrophists vs Uniformitarians | Jesse Hoogland (Timaeus) - YouTube
Jesse Hoogland (Timaeus) on the two cultures of AI safety, and why the field's deepest disagreements mirror a 200-year-old debate in geology.In this FAR.AI s...
Jesse Hoogland (Timaeus) on the two cultures of AI safety, and why the field's deepest disagreements mirror a 200-year-old debate in geology. In this FAR.AI seminar, Jesse Hoogland argues that AI safety is split into two cultures, much like nineteenth-century geology was split between catastrophists, who believed rare violent events drive change, and uniformitarians, who trusted the slow processes observable in the present. He maps that divide onto today's debates: whether the path to superintelligence runs through sudden discontinuities or gradual progress, and whether researchers should…
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