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An AI that is to us as we are to other species does not go well for us. It needs to have better values!
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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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This post is part of the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (CCF) series on how to allocate funding across causes when it is uncertain what matters most.
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Sometimes people will say "two things can be true at once" in the context of talking about mutually exclusive things that can't both be true.
But sometimes they say that about things that seem mutually exclusive but actually can both be true.
And sometimes the literal reading might be mutually exclusive, but the point still stands.
And sometimes it's just said cause people like phrases about two things that are both obviously true and entirely compatible.