6. Risks from artificial intelligence (AI)

Centre for Effective Altruism
8 Jul 2022 10:45 UTC

Transformative artificial intelligence may well be developed this century. If it is, it may begin to make many significant decisions for us, and rapidly accelerate changes like economic growth. Are we set up to deal with this new technology safely?

You will also learn about strategies to prevent an AI-related catastrophe and the possibility of so-called “s-risks”.

1. Introduction

Risks from ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI)

MaxDalton5 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
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2. The case for worrying about risks from artificial intelligence

And read “Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress”—scroll down to the bottom and access on arXiv (10 mins.)

The case for tak­ing AI se­ri­ously as a threat to humanity

EA Handbook10 Nov 2020 0:00 UTC
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(www.vox.com)

[Our World in Data] AI timelines: What do ex­perts in ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence ex­pect for the fu­ture? (Roser, 2023)

Will Aldred7 Feb 2023 14:52 UTC
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(ourworldindata.org)

3. Strategies for reducing risks from unaligned artificial intelligence

Skim the “What you can do concretely to help” section of “Preventing an AI-related catastrophe” (10 mins.)

The longter­mist AI gov­er­nance land­scape: a ba­sic overview

Sam Clarke18 Jan 2022 12:58 UTC
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12 comments9 min readEA link

Prevent­ing an AI-re­lated catas­tro­phe—Prob­lem profile

Benjamin Hilton29 Aug 2022 18:49 UTC
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(80000hours.org)

5. Suffering risks

Why s-risks are the worst ex­is­ten­tial risks, and how to pre­vent them

Max_Daniel2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
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6. More to explore

More to ex­plore on ‘Risks from Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence’

EA Handbook15 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
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