Executive summary: An essay competition with $25,000 in prizes aims to encourage thinking on the automation of wisdom and philosophy, which could be crucial for making wise choices in a world reshaped by advanced AI.
Key points:
The competition seeks essays on what is needed to automate high-quality thinking about novel situations, and how this might arise.
Key questions include the nature of good thinking to automate, recognizing new components, identifying traps in smart but unwise thinking, and developing metrics.
Other topics include types of philosophy language models can produce, empirical testing of philosophical abilities, helpful training/prompting approaches, and the likely research agenda.
Essays may also cover what serious attention to this problem would look like, natural institutional homes for the research, enabling trust in AI-generated wise advice, and catalyzing the field.
Judging criteria include importance, quality of ideas and analysis, clarity, and potential for further exploration. Prizes total $25,000.
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Executive summary: An essay competition with $25,000 in prizes aims to encourage thinking on the automation of wisdom and philosophy, which could be crucial for making wise choices in a world reshaped by advanced AI.
Key points:
The competition seeks essays on what is needed to automate high-quality thinking about novel situations, and how this might arise.
Key questions include the nature of good thinking to automate, recognizing new components, identifying traps in smart but unwise thinking, and developing metrics.
Other topics include types of philosophy language models can produce, empirical testing of philosophical abilities, helpful training/prompting approaches, and the likely research agenda.
Essays may also cover what serious attention to this problem would look like, natural institutional homes for the research, enabling trust in AI-generated wise advice, and catalyzing the field.
Judging criteria include importance, quality of ideas and analysis, clarity, and potential for further exploration. Prizes total $25,000.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.