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After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices[1]: networks of acti...
2025 in AI, with Nathan Benaich
Episode 144
Happy New Year! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the fourth time, Nathan Benaich and I did our yearly roundup of AI news and advancements, including selections from this year’s State of AI Report.
If yo...
Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems
Episode 143
I spoke with Iason Gabriel about:
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Value alignment
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Technology and worldmaking
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How AI systems affect individuals and the social world
Iason is a philosopher and Senior Staff Research Scientist at Goog...
AGI is Not Multimodal
Illustration by Alina Pringle (https://alinapringle.format.com)
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd
The recent succe...
2024 in AI, with Nathan Benaich
Episode 142
Happy holidays! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the third time, and I did our yearly roundup of all the AI news and advancements you need to know. This includes selections from this year’s State of AI...
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