Re:7 Weeks AI Alignment Curriculum
by dragonwriter on Sunday March 05, 2023 @03:40PM
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> So I'm always a little surprised how seriously people take AI safety and alignment concerns about systems we don't yet know how to build
Aside from Basilisk cultists and people play-acting concern for safety and alignment as a PR tactic to push centralized control of AI in support of their own financial self interests (groups which have more overlap than one might expect), the main (non-academic) safety and alignment concerns are more about the kind of systems we do know how to build, and which are seeing increasing deployment deployment demonstrable severe biases that have significant impacts in application and other issues.
Aside from Basilisk cultists and people play-acting concern for safety and alignment as a PR tactic to push centralized control of AI in support of their own financial self interests (groups which have more overlap than one might expect), the main (non-academic) safety and alignment concerns are more about the kind of systems we do know how to build, and which are seeing increasing deployment deployment demonstrable severe biases that have significant impacts in application and other issues.