I recently posted complaining about how EA’s were unfairly stereotyped. To balance that, I wanted to share an article in which EA’s are fairly stereotyped!
This excellent article by Dan Hendrycks talks about how utilitarianism (and to a lesser extent accelerationism) at AI companies creates a risk of human extinction.
People may agree or disagree with the argument, but unlike several mainstream depictions of EA, Dan’s article is well-informed and explains in detail why he believes that EA thinking (to the extent that EA’s are more utilitarian than average) is dangerous. At minimum, IMHO, EA’s need to be ready to answer this argument if we do not want to be dismissed out of hand as credible commentators.
(several commentors on my original post replied that they didn’t think the stereotypes I saw were so unfair, maybe this article is a good explanation of why.).
Utilitarianism / Extinction / EA’s
I recently posted complaining about how EA’s were unfairly stereotyped. To balance that, I wanted to share an article in which EA’s are fairly stereotyped!
This excellent article by Dan Hendrycks talks about how utilitarianism (and to a lesser extent accelerationism) at AI companies creates a risk of human extinction.
People may agree or disagree with the argument, but unlike several mainstream depictions of EA, Dan’s article is well-informed and explains in detail why he believes that EA thinking (to the extent that EA’s are more utilitarian than average) is dangerous. At minimum, IMHO, EA’s need to be ready to answer this argument if we do not want to be dismissed out of hand as credible commentators.
(several commentors on my original post replied that they didn’t think the stereotypes I saw were so unfair, maybe this article is a good explanation of why.).