Misalignment Museum opens in San Francisco: ‘Sorry for killing most of humanity’

Michael Huang

Misalignment Museum opens in San Francisco: ‘Sorry for killing most of humanity’

Michael Huang

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Søren Elverlin

I appreciate cultural works creating common knowledge that the AGI labs are behaving strongly unethically.

As for the specific scenario, point 17 seems to be contradicted by the orthogonality thesis / lack of moral realism.

TW123

I don't think the orthogonality thesis is correct in practice, and moral antirealism certainly isn't an agreed upon position among moral philosophers, but I agree that point 17 seems far fetched.

Geoffrey Miller

Michael - thanks for posting about this.

I think it's valuable to present ideas about AI X-risk in different forms, venues, and contexts, to spark different cognitive, emotional, and aesthetic reactions in people.

I've been fascinated by visual arts for many decades, have written about the evolutionary origins of art, and one of my daughters is a professional artist. My experience is that art installations can provoke a more open-minded contemplation of issues and ideas than just reading things on a screen or in a book. There's something about walking around in a gallery space that encourages a more pensive, non-reactive, non-judgmental response.

I haven't seen the Misalignment Museum in person, but would value reactions from anyone who has.

pseudonym

Looks cool! Do we know who funded this?

Michael Huang

The donor is anonymous.

From the Wired article: "The temporary exhibit is funded until May by an anonymous donor..."

Vasco Grilo🔸

Thanks for sharing!

I think to would be nice to have Q&As that the visitors could fill at the end of the visit to see whether the museum successfully increased their awareness about the risk of advanced misaligned AI.

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