🔮 Quick weekend reads: the big AI questions
AI is really forcing some big questions into the open.
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Key points
- Here are some weekend reads on them.
- The Economist address the effective altruism (EA) belief system, which it calls “this century’s biggest idea”:
- Effective altruists’ argument for worrying about really powerful AIs is that the machines could optimise for a single and fatally wrong objective.
- Anthropic has prioritised questions of whether its systems might imbue consciousness and personhood more than other AI companies.
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- [1]🔮 Quick weekend reads: the big AI questionsExponential View (Azeem Azhar) · Oct 3, 12:54 PM
AI is really forcing some big questions into the open.
Here are some weekend reads on them.
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