The average person concerned with existential risk from AGI might assume “safety” means working to reduce the likelihood that we all die. They would be disheartened to learn that many “AI Safety” researchers are instead focused on making sure contemporary LLMs behave appropriately.
“average person” is doing a lot of work here. I suspect the vast amount of truly “average people” are in fact concerned that LLMs will reproduce Nazi swill at an exponential scale more than that they may actually be Robot Hitler.
Turns out if you spend all your time navelgazing and inventing your own terms, the real world will ignore you and use terms people outside your bubble use.
To be fair, I think about this five times before breakfast:
Humans develop AI to perform economic functions, eventually there is an “AI rights” movement and a separate AI nation is founded. It gets into an economic war with humanity, which turns hot. Humans strike first with nuclear weapons, but the AI nation builds dedicated bio- and robo-weapons and wipes out most of humanity, apart from those who are bred in pods like farm animals and plugged into a simulation for eternity without their consent.
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“average person” is doing a lot of work here. I suspect the vast amount of truly “average people” are in fact concerned that LLMs will reproduce Nazi swill at an exponential scale more than that they may actually be Robot Hitler.
Turns out if you spend all your time navelgazing and inventing your own terms, the real world will ignore you and use terms people outside your bubble use.
@gerikson @dgerard “average person concerned with existential risk from AGI” is a contradiction in terms
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To be fair, I think about this five times before breakfast:
What is to “behave appropriately” if not actively causing the death of everyone anyway?