Executive summary: The post explores potential areas of work that may be as important as ensuring human control over AI, such as making AI-powered humanity wiser, improving AI’s reasoning on complex topics, ensuring compatibility between Earth-originating AI and other forms of intelligent life, and pursuing other avenues for positively shaping advanced AI systems besides strict human control.
Key points:
Making AI-powered humanity wiser through governance proposals and technical interventions to improve AI’s ability to reason about complex philosophical topics.
Enhancing AI’s metacognition about harmful information and improving its decision-theoretic reasoning and anthropic beliefs.
Ensuring the compatibility and “unfussiness” of Earth-originating AI systems with other intelligent life, to reduce potential conflicts.
Pursuing safe Pareto improvements and surrogate goals to facilitate beneficial bargaining between AI systems.
Profiling and selecting for desirable AI “personality” traits while avoiding malevolent or harmful traits.
Studying the potential risks of “near misses” and “sign flips” in AI training, and advocating for being “nice” to AIs during training.
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Executive summary: The post explores potential areas of work that may be as important as ensuring human control over AI, such as making AI-powered humanity wiser, improving AI’s reasoning on complex topics, ensuring compatibility between Earth-originating AI and other forms of intelligent life, and pursuing other avenues for positively shaping advanced AI systems besides strict human control.
Key points:
Making AI-powered humanity wiser through governance proposals and technical interventions to improve AI’s ability to reason about complex philosophical topics.
Enhancing AI’s metacognition about harmful information and improving its decision-theoretic reasoning and anthropic beliefs.
Ensuring the compatibility and “unfussiness” of Earth-originating AI systems with other intelligent life, to reduce potential conflicts.
Pursuing safe Pareto improvements and surrogate goals to facilitate beneficial bargaining between AI systems.
Profiling and selecting for desirable AI “personality” traits while avoiding malevolent or harmful traits.
Studying the potential risks of “near misses” and “sign flips” in AI training, and advocating for being “nice” to AIs during training.
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