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Crossposted to Less Wrong
‘Like most of life’s dangers, the dangers of artificial intelligence are not easily identified from the armchair.’
J Dmitri Gallow
Epistemic status
I’m not an expert in this field, and herein I make some sweeping generalisations educated guesses about the overall...
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Subtitle: If acceleration compounds, the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year
This post discusses a public METR report on AI R&D acceler...
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TL;DR:
* When we started Rethink Priorities (RP) in 2018, our mission was, simply put, to close the knowledge gaps that stopped people from improving the world as much as they could. That hasn’t changed much, but the landscape we’re doing it in is shifting.
* In 2027, we plan to grow our core GHD, Animal Welfare, and Worldview Investigations teams to take on emerging priorities across causes, including those that the forthcoming transformative AI is creating.
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From an email sent to all EA Global attendees this weekend:
The EA Global team has appointed a board of advisors to help us decide whether to cancel or reschedule EA Global, given the outbreak of COVID-19. However, we may still hold the conference at the intended time.
Our advisors will consider recent data on the spread of the virus in the Bay Area and in areas many attendees are traveling from, among other factors. We plan to provide more information next week about the board members and the process they will use to make a decision.