What’s Up With the Windfall Clause? (online EA SF event)
cross-posted from Facebook. (I will check both this thread and the FB event for comments)
Date: 2020/04/08
Time: 19:00-21:00 (PDT)
How can we ensure that the gains from Transformative AI collectively benefit humanity, rather than just the lucky few? How can we incentivize innovation in AI in a way that’s broadly positive for humanity? Other than alignment, what are distributive issues with the status quo in AI profits? What are practical issues with different distributive mechanisms?
In this talk, Cullen O’Keefe, Research Scientist at OpenAI and Research Affiliate at FHI, will argue for the “windfall clause”: in short, that companies should donate excess windfall profits from Transformative AI for the common good.
You may be interested in reading his paper summarizing the core ideas [1], or his AMA on the EA Forum [2].
This will be EA: San Francisco’s inaugural online event (and only our second general event).
We’re still looking into different technological options for the best way to host this talk, but please have the Zoom App downloaded and create a Zoom account.
As this will be online, I see little reason to restrict this to people living within the physical Bay Area. Feel free to invite friends from all over the world (in a compatible time zone) if they wish to attend.
We’d like to try using this forum to coalesce possible questions to ask Cullen. Please use this comment chain to ask and rank questions about the Windfall clause!!
(We will attempt, but not guarantee, asking him questions in the order of highest-upvoted questions in this thread that wasn’t covered in the talk, as well as some live questions!)
What’s Up With the Windfall Clause? (online EA SF event)
cross-posted from Facebook. (I will check both this thread and the FB event for comments)
Date: 2020/04/08
Time: 19:00-21:00 (PDT)
How can we ensure that the gains from Transformative AI collectively benefit humanity, rather than just the lucky few? How can we incentivize innovation in AI in a way that’s broadly positive for humanity? Other than alignment, what are distributive issues with the status quo in AI profits? What are practical issues with different distributive mechanisms?
In this talk, Cullen O’Keefe, Research Scientist at OpenAI and Research Affiliate at FHI, will argue for the “windfall clause”: in short, that companies should donate excess windfall profits from Transformative AI for the common good.
You may be interested in reading his paper summarizing the core ideas [1], or his AMA on the EA Forum [2].
This will be EA: San Francisco’s inaugural online event (and only our second general event).
We’re still looking into different technological options for the best way to host this talk, but please have the Zoom App downloaded and create a Zoom account.
As this will be online, I see little reason to restrict this to people living within the physical Bay Area. Feel free to invite friends from all over the world (in a compatible time zone) if they wish to attend.
Tentative schedule:
Talk: 7:00-7:25
Q&A: 7:25-8:10
Structured Mingling: 8:10-9:00.
(Details of exact schedule TBD)
For the sake of everyone’s mental health, we are banning all discussions of The Disease Which Must Not Be Named.
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11595.pdf
[2] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9cx8TrLEooaw49cAr/i-m-cullen-o-keefe-a-policy-researcher-at-openai-ama
The talk is finished! You can view the video here.
I was impressed by how high the turnout was. 34 concurrent on the livestream, 100+ views, and 29 people at the follow-up Q&A Zoom call afterwards.
This is happening on Facebook in an hour! Please check the FB event for more details.
We’d like to try using this forum to coalesce possible questions to ask Cullen. Please use this comment chain to ask and rank questions about the Windfall clause!!
(We will attempt, but not guarantee, asking him questions in the order of highest-upvoted questions in this thread that wasn’t covered in the talk, as well as some live questions!)