AI Safety Explained
Victoria BrookAI has the potential to do serious harm over the next 5-10 years, but understanding AI thoroughly is difficult. This page makes it easy by explaining basic concepts and papers in AI safety in simple terms.
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Could AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?
We’ve already looked at how soon AGI may arrive. But what would this mean for the world? One way of answering this question is through an economic lens — economics can be used to look at how people consume things, how well off people are, a...
When Might we Expect Artificial General Intelligence? Why?
‘Between 2045 and 2090’, says a literature review of forecasts made by AI safety researchers. This is really important— it seems likely that the world will look very different once Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)1 is developed, and ex...
A Safer Form of AI?
Standard AI are optimizers: they ‘look’ through possible actions they could take, and pick the one that maximises what they care about. This can be dangerous— an AI which maximises in this way needs to care about exactly the same things tha...
What is OpenAI's approach to making AI Safe?
Some claim that large AI companies like OpenAI aren’t doing enough to make AI safer, or are causing harm by speeding up AI progress. But what are OpenAI doing to make AI safer?
In general, OpenAI is very optimistic about using AI to help w...
How 'safe' AI can still have problems
Mesa-optimization is an important concept in AI alignment. Sometimes, an optimizer (like gradient descent, or evolution) produces another optimizer (like complex AIs, or humans). When this happens, the second optimizer is called a 'mesa-opt...
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Victoria is a professional field-builder for AI safety, meaning she writes about AI Safety in a number of places, talks to people considering getting into AI safety professionally, and runs courses on AI safety.
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