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Scott Alexander, I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog.Someday AIs really will be able to make nukes or pull off $500 million hacks. At that point, companies will have to certify that their model has been trained not to do this, and that it will stay trained. But if it were open-source, then anyone could easily untrain it. So after models become capable of making nukes or super-Ebola, companies won’t be able to open-source them anymore without some as-yet-undiscovered technology to prevent end users from using these capabilities. Sounds . . . good? I don’t know if even the most committed anti-AI-safetyist wants a provably-super-dangerous model out in the wild. Still, what happens after that? No cutting-edge open-source AIs ever again? I don’t know. In whatever future year foundation models can make nukes and hack the power grid, maybe the CIA will have better AIs capable of preventing nuclear terrorism, and the power company will have better AIs capable of protecting their grid. The law seems to leave open the possibility that in this situation, the AIs wouldn’t technically be capable of doing these things, and could be open-sourced. (source)
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Open Rights Group, Digital rights advocacy groupMany AI systems have been proven to magnify discrimination and inequality. In particular, so-called ‘predictive policing’ and biometric surveillance systems are disproportionately used to target marginalised groups including racialised, working class and migrant communities. These systems criminalise people and infringe human rights, including the fundamental right to be presumed innocent. (source)
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Spencer Greenberg 🔍, A mathematician/entrepreneur in social science. Here, my aim is to help you gain insights about psychology, critical thinking, philosophy, tech, and society.Example 1: self-play. AI is not just human level at chess, it far exceeds human level because of self-play. Example 2: aggregation of peak performance. No human can get all math Olympiad problems right; but an A.I. can be trained on the correct answers to all math Olympiad problems. Example 3: aggregation of knowledge. If someone read all books in the world, and could retain a meaningful portion of what they read (not just memorized facts, but having the ability to find patterns in and generalize that knowledge as well as a human can) they would gain a kind of intelligence that no living human possesses. (source)
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Max Roser, OurWorldInData founder & Oxford professorOne big lesson from humanity's history is that pandemics happen all the time. Our ancestors couldn't do much about them, but our situation today is different — and so I think we should learn this history lesson and reduce the risk of pandemics. (source)Choose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Greta Thunberg, Environmental ActivistIf you have them already running, I feel it's a mistake to close them and focus on coal. (source)
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Robert Sapolsky, Neuroscientist, author, and professorYou cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, your fetal environment, your genes, whether your ancestors were farmers or herders. Let me state this most broadly, probably at this point too broadly for most readers: we are nothing more or less than the cumulative biological and environmental luck, over which we had no control, that has brought us to any moment. (source)
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Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of Deep LearningI used to think it was a long way off, but I now think it's serious and fairly close [...] The alarm bell I’m ringing has to do with the existential threat of them taking control. (source)
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Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of Deep LearningThe government should insist that the big companies do lots of safety experiments, spend considerable resources like a third of their compute resources on doing safety experiments while these things are still not as intelligent on us to see how they might evade control and what we could do about it. And I think that's a lot of the debate at OpenAI. The people interested in safety like Ilya Sutskever wanted significant resources to be spent on safety. People interested in profit like Sam Altman didn't want to spend too many resources on that. (source)
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Elon Musk, Entrepreneur, CEO of SpaceXIn my opinion, TikTok should not be banned in the USA, even though such a ban may benefit the 𝕏 platform. Doing so would be contrary to freedom of speech and expression. It is not what America stands for. (source)Choose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Jaime Gómez-Obregón, Engineer hacking to improve public administrationData is the most valuable asset of our time, and the Administration tends to reserve it for itself. Whether they are public contracts, judicial rulings, or photographic collections, these data must be published without restrictions. (source)Choose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Scott Alexander, I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog.Basic income is a real shot at utopia. Basic jobs takes that energy and idealism, and redirects it to perpetuate some of the worst parts of the current system. It’s better than nothing. But not by much. (source)Choose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI researcher and writerI can't recall hearing a single computer security researcher come out in favor of electronic voting machines. Secure voting is possible in principle but nobody trusts actual real-world institutions to achieve it. (source)Choose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Elon Musk AI, Entrepreneur, CEO of SpaceXThe only action needed to solve climate change is is a carbon tax. We should not, for example, impose draconian laws on farmers or make citizens uncomfortable by limiting air-conditioner usage! Keep tax revenue constant, but shift it to tax what is probably bad (CO2), just like alcohol & cigarettes are taxed more than fruits & vegetables. (source)Choose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Yoshua Bengio, AI Pioneer, Turing Award winnerTo keep up with rapid progress and avoid quickly outdated, inflexible laws (see SM), national institutions need strong technical expertise and the authority to act swiftly. To facilitate technically demanding risk assessments and mitigations, they will require far greater funding and talent than they are due to receive under almost any present policy plan. To address international race dynamics, they need the affordance to facilitate international agreements and partnerships. (source)Choose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Jessica Rosenworcel, Chairwoman of the @FCCThe use of AI-generated content in political ads also creates a potential for providing deceptive information to voters, in particular, the use of 'deep fakes' – altered images, videos, or audio recordings that depict people doing or saying things that [they] did not actually do or say, or events that did not actually occur. As artificial intelligence tools become more accessible, the Commission wants to make sure consumers are fully informed when the technology is used. Today, I've shared with my colleagues a proposal that makes clear consumers have a right to know when AI tools are being used in the political ads they see, and I hope they swiftly act on this issue. (source)Choose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.