As a countervailing perspective, Dan Hendrycks thinks that it would be valuable to have automated moral philosophy research assistance to “help us reduce risks of value lock-in by improving our moral precedents earlier rather than later” (though I don’t know if he would endorse this project). Likewise, some AI alignment researchers think it would be valuable to have automated assistance with AI alignment research. If EAs could write a nice EA Forum post just by giving GPT-EA-Forum a nice prompt and revising the resulting post, that could help EAs save time and explore a broader space of research directions. Still, I think some risks are:
This bot would write content similar to what the EA Forum has already written, rather than advancing EA philosophy
The content produced is less likely to be well-reasoned, lowering the quality of content on the EA Forum
As a countervailing perspective, Dan Hendrycks thinks that it would be valuable to have automated moral philosophy research assistance to “help us reduce risks of value lock-in by improving our moral precedents earlier rather than later” (though I don’t know if he would endorse this project). Likewise, some AI alignment researchers think it would be valuable to have automated assistance with AI alignment research. If EAs could write a nice EA Forum post just by giving GPT-EA-Forum a nice prompt and revising the resulting post, that could help EAs save time and explore a broader space of research directions. Still, I think some risks are:
This bot would write content similar to what the EA Forum has already written, rather than advancing EA philosophy
The content produced is less likely to be well-reasoned, lowering the quality of content on the EA Forum