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Data bottlenecks won’t prevent an intelligence explosion
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Summary
One of the most important questions facing the world is whether AI will undergo a fast intelligence explosion and quickly automate most real-world work....
Should We Hand Off the Most Important Decisions to AI?
Matthew Adelstein was a Visiting Scholar at Forethought and blogs as Bentham’s Bulldog, where he writes on ethics, animal welfare, and the long-run future.
He joined Fin Moorhouse to discuss:
- Why Matthew thinks handoff of high-stakes...
A nightwatchman on every probe
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One utopian vision for space expansion involves a libertarian explosion of diversity, with everyone and their robot setting up different sorts of societies and gover...
The Dynamics of Intelligence Explosions
Abstract
AI is increasingly being used to help with AI R&D. Under certain conditions this feedback loop might be able to produce an intelligence explosion, with rapidly escalating AI capabilities. I explore the mathematics of the most e...
Notes on Implications of Scale-Dependent Algorithms
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Of past algorithmic improvements which decrease LLM pretraining loss, many have been “scale-dependent” – that is, improvements which decrease LLM pretraining los...
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AI macrostrategy research
Head of Strategic Initiatives at Forethought
Utilitarian, effective altruist, and cool guy all around
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Philosopher at Oxford University and author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
PhD student in economics at Columbia University. Interested in growth, welfare and technology.
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Philosopher; figuring out how to do good better.
AI safety grantmaking and strategy. Previously dabbled in biosecurity and quant trading.
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