Executive summary: The concept of “human-level AI” is an inadequate and potentially misleading benchmark for assessing AI capabilities and risks, as AIs may pose significant threats or transform society even while still being below human level in some areas.
Key points:
AI can be superhuman in some domains while subhuman in others, making “human-level” an imprecise threshold.
Critical AI capabilities like accelerating research or posing takeover threats may not require full human-level abilities.
Economic transformation and moral consideration of AIs could occur before reaching human-level capabilities.
AIs may substitute or bypass human cognitive approaches rather than replicating them exactly.
Focusing on specific capability thresholds relevant to risks and impacts is more useful than the broad “human-level” concept.
The potential for rapid self-improvement after reaching “human-level” is uncertain and depends on various factors.
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Executive summary: The concept of “human-level AI” is an inadequate and potentially misleading benchmark for assessing AI capabilities and risks, as AIs may pose significant threats or transform society even while still being below human level in some areas.
Key points:
AI can be superhuman in some domains while subhuman in others, making “human-level” an imprecise threshold.
Critical AI capabilities like accelerating research or posing takeover threats may not require full human-level abilities.
Economic transformation and moral consideration of AIs could occur before reaching human-level capabilities.
AIs may substitute or bypass human cognitive approaches rather than replicating them exactly.
Focusing on specific capability thresholds relevant to risks and impacts is more useful than the broad “human-level” concept.
The potential for rapid self-improvement after reaching “human-level” is uncertain and depends on various factors.
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.
didn’t take the bait :(