Richard Ngo's retrospective on AI alignment argues that the alignment community made potentially fatal strategic errors, including overestimating the decisiveness of informal arguments and failing to …
The authors of AI 2040: Plan A rebut a criticism by Séb Krier, arguing that his characterization misrepresents their proposal and lacks substantive argumentation. They assert that Plan A is highly ite…
AI safety forecasts are undermined by untestable assumptions about the nature of future AI agents, such as whether they will be humans, institutions, or hybrid collectives. These ontological commitmen…
Holden Karnofsky, a prominent figure in AI safety, compiled a list of ways AI safety efforts could be net negative, acknowledging that actions intended to improve safety might inadvertently cause harm…
A new paper argues that natural selection's inability to resolve small fitness differences due to noise can make evolution effectively non-myopic, enabling the emergence of "individuals" as coalitions…