Thèmes / AI safety discourse dynamics

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Some of the most extreme AI risk views reached the masses

Nathan Lambert says it was not known in advance which views of AI risk a growing group taking AI safety more seriously would latch onto. He says some of the most extreme views—moderate probabilities of mass extinction—were the ones that reached the masses.

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We have seen that some of the most extreme views of risk, i.e. moderate probabilities of mass extinction, were the ones that reached the masses.
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As AI became more powerful, it was inevitable that a different, growing group would start to take AI safety more seriously – what we did not know ahead of time, is which set of views they latched onto. A lot in the AI world is about to change due to this.