AlphaGo - The Movie - DeepMind - A documentary exploring what artificial intelligence can reveal about the 3000-year-old game of Go, and what that can teach us about the future potential of artificial intelligence. (Video - 1 hour 30 mins.)
What Failure Looks Like (12 mins.) - Two specific stories about what a very bad society-wide AI alignment failure could look like, which differ considerably from the classic “intelligence explosion” story
AGI Safety from first principles (1 hour 15 mins.) - one AI researcher’s take on the specific factors for the problem of aligning general AI
This post is co-authored with Ben Garfinkel. It is cross-posted from the CEA blog. A PDF version can be found here.
Summary: Some strategic decisions available to the effective altruism m...
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Agency - the realisation that you really can just do things.
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Biosecurity needs people (of any background) who are agentic and have a high execution velocity and track record....
TL;DR: I'm releasing a website that ranks philanthropists according to EA principles and research, and allows users to re-rank the list using their own assumptions. I'd like feedback and help making it better. I'd especially like ideas for how to make the results more trustworthy. Funding may be available.
I recently built Impact List (impactlist.xyz), a site which ranks people by their positive impact via donations.
The goal is t...
Thank you! Sharing this recent resource from 80,000 Hours also:
- [AI 2027: How Close Are We to AI Disaster?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVDDfAkRgc)