Matthew_Barnett

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Why I reject the longtermist argument against accelerating AI

Matthew_Barnett26 Jan 2026 2:45 UTC

53 points

8 comments9 min readEA link

The standard case for delaying AI appears to rest on non-utilitarian assumptions

Matthew_Barnett11 Feb 2025 4:04 UTC

15 points

57 comments10 min readEA link

AI welfare vs. AI rights

Matthew_Barnett4 Feb 2025 18:28 UTC

37 points

20 comments3 min readEA link

The moral argument for giving AIs autonomy

Matthew_Barnett8 Jan 2025 0:59 UTC

41 points

7 comments11 min readEA link

Consider granting AIs freedom

Matthew_Barnett6 Dec 2024 0:55 UTC

100 points

38 comments5 min readEA link

Distinguishing ways AI can be “concentrated”

Matthew_Barnett21 Oct 2024 22:14 UTC

30 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

AI Rights for Human Safety

Matthew_Barnett3 Aug 2024 0:47 UTC

56 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(papers.ssrn.com)

Analyzing the moral value of unaligned AIs

Matthew_Barnett8 Apr 2024 16:06 UTC

71 points

52 comments19 min readEA link

Clarifying two uses of “alignment”

Matthew_Barnett10 Mar 2024 17:41 UTC

36 points

28 comments4 min readEA link

Against most, but not all, AI risk analogies

Matthew_Barnett14 Jan 2024 19:13 UTC

43 points

9 comments7 min readEA link

AI values will be shaped by a variety of forces, not just the values of AI developers

Matthew_Barnett11 Jan 2024 0:48 UTC

71 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

AI alignment shouldn’t be conflated with AI moral achievement

Matthew_Barnett30 Dec 2023 3:08 UTC

116 points

15 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What is the current most representative EA AI x-risk argument?

Matthew_Barnett15 Dec 2023 22:04 UTC

117 points

49 comments3 min readEA link

My thoughts on the social response to AI risk

Matthew_Barnett1 Nov 2023 21:27 UTC

116 points

17 comments10 min readEA link

The possibility of an indefinite AI pause

Matthew_Barnett19 Sep 2023 12:28 UTC

90 points

73 comments15 min readEA link

Updating Drexler’s CAIS model

Matthew_Barnett17 Jun 2023 1:57 UTC

59 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

A compute-based framework for thinking about the future of AI

Matthew_Barnett31 May 2023 22:00 UTC

96 points

36 comments19 min readEA link

Why I think it’s important to work on AI forecasting

Matthew_Barnett27 Feb 2023 21:24 UTC

179 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

Slightly against aligning with neo-luddites

Matthew_Barnett26 Dec 2022 23:27 UTC

77 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

The Most Important Century: The Animation

Writer24 Jul 2022 22:34 UTC

50 points

8 comments20 min readEA link

(youtu.be)