Regrettable that this post didn't recall the other van-related EA Forum post, which also recalls a van ride south to NYC. This post is a little more practical.
The AI Horizons Forum is a new conference which will bring together the core AI safety community, establish more of a shared picture of the current risk landscape and help coordinate a stronger response. We also want to help core AI safety organizations grow by connecting them with talented people well-positioned to move into high priority roles.
Our speakers include Will MacAskill, Holden Karnofsky, Amy Labenz, Sam Bowman, and Peter Wildeford with many more to come.
We recommend applying if you're working in AI safety and governance, or if you have relevant skills or experience and are ready to transition into the field. If you’re uncertain about whether to apply, we encourage you to do so! We have some travel support available for applications received before November 13.
If you have questions, feel free to comment here or email [email protected]
It's very plausible we won't, and that's alarming, but it feels a little too early to call this. The labs taking unilateral actions already seems like some evidence that we can.
I suspect you're a lot less alone on this one than you are with donating to effective charities and were being early to COVID. (I also suspect you agree, but spelling this out for other readers).
It's tricky to get meaningful information from surveys, but this one from June finds that a slight majority of respondents thought a superintelligence would seek to take control of humanity. AI existential risk awareness is also steadily climbing, this survey says up to 34%. I would bet that still only a very small % of people are as worried as you and me and many in this community, but lots of people are somewhat worried and could probably quite quickly get more worried and be activated to do something about it.
I think this points to saying what we're worried about, and saying it clearly (like this!), especially how quickly loss of control risks are becoming very real. I'm very bullish on AI safety comms, and expect there's lots we can do there.
I just stumbled on this post. The recent OpenAI<>Hugging Face incident (and wave of related security incidents) seem to be what this post described ("a non-existential public display of misalignment").
It seems like lots of people in the AIS community were responsive to these incidents, but we might be in an even better position now if more people read this post. Thanks, keep posting!
Can I subscribe just to a newsletter for occasional calls to action? The "Join" form asks me to agree to the volunteer agreement, which I don't want to do (e.g. I don't want to give PausAI UK permission to use my name in materials), but maybe I want to do things like Michelle did occasionally.
Visions Trying to make sense of the now Trying to make sense of the past To show us how
Visions Imagining the worlds that could be Shaping a mosaic of fates For all sentient beings
Visions Cycles of growth and decay Cascading chains of events With no one to praise or blame
Visions Avoidable suffering and pain We are patiently inching our way Toward unreachable utopias
Visions Enslaved by the forces of nature Elevated by mindless replicators Challenged to steer our collective destiny
Visions Look at the magic of reality While accepting with all honesty That we can't know for sure what's next No we can't know for sure what's next But that we're in this together We are here together
We are here together Ooh, we are here together Oh, we are here together We are here together
Regrettable that this post didn't recall the other van-related EA Forum post, which also recalls a van ride south to NYC. This post is a little more practical.
Applications for the AI Horizons Forum close November 27. Apply now!
The AI Horizons Forum is a new conference which will bring together the core AI safety community, establish more of a shared picture of the current risk landscape and help coordinate a stronger response. We also want to help core AI safety organizations grow by connecting them with talented people well-positioned to move into high priority roles.
Our speakers include Will MacAskill, Holden Karnofsky, Amy Labenz, Sam Bowman, and Peter Wildeford with many more to come.
We recommend applying if you're working in AI safety and governance, or if you have relevant skills or experience and are ready to transition into the field. If you’re uncertain about whether to apply, we encourage you to do so! We have some travel support available for applications received before November 13.
If you have questions, feel free to comment here or email [email protected]
It's very plausible we won't, and that's alarming, but it feels a little too early to call this. The labs taking unilateral actions already seems like some evidence that we can.
FYI this is currently called "Untitled Draft" :)
This resonates with me, thanks for sharing.
I suspect you're a lot less alone on this one than you are with donating to effective charities and were being early to COVID. (I also suspect you agree, but spelling this out for other readers).
It's tricky to get meaningful information from surveys, but this one from June finds that a slight majority of respondents thought a superintelligence would seek to take control of humanity. AI existential risk awareness is also steadily climbing, this survey says up to 34%. I would bet that still only a very small % of people are as worried as you and me and many in this community, but lots of people are somewhat worried and could probably quite quickly get more worried and be activated to do something about it.
I think this points to saying what we're worried about, and saying it clearly (like this!), especially how quickly loss of control risks are becoming very real. I'm very bullish on AI safety comms, and expect there's lots we can do there.
I just stumbled on this post. The recent OpenAI<>Hugging Face incident (and wave of related security incidents) seem to be what this post described ("a non-existential public display of misalignment").
It seems like lots of people in the AIS community were responsive to these incidents, but we might be in an even better position now if more people read this post. Thanks, keep posting!
Excited for this event!
Can I subscribe just to a newsletter for occasional calls to action? The "Join" form asks me to agree to the volunteer agreement, which I don't want to do (e.g. I don't want to give PausAI UK permission to use my name in materials), but maybe I want to do things like Michelle did occasionally.
There was an update about this here, FYI.
Visions is one my favourites: