torsdag 11 januari 2024

Video talk about the Grace et al surveys on what AI researchers think about AI risk

There is much disagreement out there regarding what future progress in AI may have in store for us, including AI risk. What could then be more natural than asking AI researchers what they think? This is what Katja Grace and various collaborators have done in a series of surveys in 2016, 2022 and 2023. The results are interesting, partly in unexpected ways. Back in 2017, Katja gave an excellent talk about the first of those surveys, at a Gothenburg meeting that I hosted. Today I recorded a video lecture in which I comment on her findings back then and in the later surveys, with particular emphasis on whether and how much we can trust these AI researchers to make sound judgements about our future with AI:

fredag 5 januari 2024

Video talk on OpenAI's Preparedness Framework

Here's my latest video lecture on what OpenAI does regarding AI risk and AI safety, following up on the ones from December 2022 and March 2023. This time I focus on the so-called Preparedness Framework that they announced last month, and criticize it along lines heavily influenced by Zvi Mowshowitz writing on the same topic.