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All AI Impacts research pages now reside on the AI Impacts Wiki. The wiki aims to document what we know so far about decision-relevant questions about the future of AI. Our pages have always been wiki-like: updatable reference pages organized by topic. We hope that making it an actual wiki will make it clearer to everyone what's going on, as well as better to use for this purpose, for both us and readers. We are actively looking for ways to make the wiki even better, and you can help with this by sharing your thoughts in our feedback form or in the comments of this blog post!
We recently moved to a new office that we are sharing with FAR AI and other partner organizations. We’re extremely grateful to the team at FAR for organizing this office space, as well as to the Lightcone team for hosting us over the last year and a half.
At EA Global Bay Area 2023, Katja gave a talk titled Will AI end everything? A guide to guessing in which she outlined a way to roughly estimate the extent of AI risk.
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I liked the "we don't trade with ants" post, but I think it misses an additional reason why we would be near useless for superhuman AGI even if we can communicate with them: We would be so slow as compared to them that in their terms we would take forever to understand and do what they would want from us, so that it would still be more efficient to just move us out of the way instead of telling us to move out of the way and then wait until we get it and do it in slo-mo.