Week 0: Even though it is a theory course, it would likely be useful to have some basic understanding of machine learning, although this would vary depending on the exact content of the course. It might or might not make sense to run a week 0 depending on most people’s backgrounds.
I would reccomend having a week 0 with some ML and RL basics.
I did a day 0 ML and RL speed run, at the start of two of my AI Safety workshops at EA hotel in 2019. Where you there for that? It might have been recorded, but I have no idea where it might have ended up. Although obviously some things have happened since then.
Week 1 & 2: I’d assume that the participants have at least a basic understanding of inner vs outer alignment, deceptive alignment, instrumental convergence, orthogonality thesis, why we’re concerned about powerful optimisers, value lock-in, recursive self-improvement, slow vs. fast take-off, superintelligence, transformative AI, wireheading, though I could quite easily create a document that defines all of these terms.
Seems very worth creating. Depending on peoples background some people will have an understanding of these with out knowing the terminology. A document explaining each term, and a “read more” link to some useful post would be great. Both for people to know if they have the pre-requisite, and to help anyone who almost have the prerequisite to find that one blogpost they (them specifically) should read to be able to follow the course.
I would reccomend having a week 0 with some ML and RL basics.
I did a day 0 ML and RL speed run, at the start of two of my AI Safety workshops at EA hotel in 2019. Where you there for that? It might have been recorded, but I have no idea where it might have ended up. Although obviously some things have happened since then.
Seems very worth creating. Depending on peoples background some people will have an understanding of these with out knowing the terminology. A document explaining each term, and a “read more” link to some useful post would be great. Both for people to know if they have the pre-requisite, and to help anyone who almost have the prerequisite to find that one blogpost they (them specifically) should read to be able to follow the course.
I was there for an AI Safety workshop, I can’t remember the content though. Do you know what you included?