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...

Thanks to Bruce Friedrich, Seth Ariel Green, Tobias Leenaert, Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Martine van Haperen, Herman Rohrbach, Chris Popa and Elizabeth Alvarez for comments. Claude helped structure the text. Ideas and mistakes are my own. I currently work with ProVeg International. The prize I propose would be defined and judged by an independent committee, and its money would fund scaling the winning solution(s), not ProVeg or the winner. TL/DR * EA could d...

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. ...