Awesome to see your write-up! (context: I’m the founder of Lens Academy)
> Instead of assigning dozens of disconnected papers, blog posts, podcasts, and videos, Lens Academy builds the programme around a single primary book:
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Yup. So, our other courses do consist of dozens of disconnected recources, but we wanted to try out an intro course with IABIED and so far are pretty happy with it. The book isn’t perfect, but provides a relatively compelling case for AI takeover risk at an introductory level.
We’ll probably be expanding this intro course to contain some different resources too, especially to provide context about the AI Safety ecosystem and possible next steps people can take.
Awesome to see your write-up! (context: I’m the founder of Lens Academy)
> Instead of assigning dozens of disconnected papers, blog posts, podcasts, and videos, Lens Academy builds the programme around a single primary book:
Yup. So, our other courses do consist of dozens of disconnected recources, but we wanted to try out an intro course with IABIED and so far are pretty happy with it. The book isn’t perfect, but provides a relatively compelling case for AI takeover risk at an introductory level.
We’ll probably be expanding this intro course to contain some different resources too, especially to provide context about the AI Safety ecosystem and possible next steps people can take.