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24 hours ago, I was on stage in our nations capital talking to Senator @BernieSanders about AI x-risk. What a time to be alive!
You can watch the whole recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=wjBfS3…
David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪
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David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪
@DavidSKrueger
Raising AI risk awareness at evitable.com
AI prof at Mila.
Formerly Cambridge, DeepMind, UK AISI.
…alartificialintelligence.substack.com
Joined November 2011
- Machine Learning lives in an uncanny valley btw Science and Engineering. It's the worst of both worlds. We don't care about understanding, just making things "work" (bad science). We don't care if things work in the real world, just on contrived benchmarks (bad engineering).
- Big News! I'm thrilled to be joining the Computational and Biological Learning Lab (CBL) at Cambridge this fall as a Lecturer (tenure track faculty)! I plan to focus on Deep Learning and AI Alignment. I'm recruiting PhD students to start as soon as this fall.
- I'm looking for: - PhD students - postdocs - and potentially interns and research assistants (like a post-doc for those who haven't got a PhD) Potential post-docs should reach out ASAP and strongly consider applying for funding from FLI; this would need to happen quite soon
- There are a significant number of people in the AI research community who explicitly think humans should be replaced by AI as the natural next step in evolution, and the sooner the better!
- I am looking for 1-2 PhD students to join my research group at Cambridge (CBL) fall 2022. Our focus is on Deep Learning, AI Alignment, and existential safety. Deadline for university funding is December 2.
- Complete and total bullshitMicrosoft AI says it’ll make superintelligent AI that won’t be terrible for humanity theverge.com/news/815619/mi…
- Geoff Hinton quit Google so he can speak freely on the risks of AI. "He is worried that future versions of the technology pose a threat to humanity"
- Saying "AI is not inevitable" seems to have started a bit more of a conversation that I would've thought. It seems a lot of people are really insistent that it's inevitable. It's weird to witness people forcefully rejecting their agency. 🤷
- If you think the risk of human extinction from AI is overblown, just go looking for the good counter-arguments. That's what I did 10 years ago. They don't exist.
- Replying to @DavidSKruegerIt is remarkable that this anti-social position is tolerated in our field. Imagine if biologists were regularly saying things like "I think it would be good if some disease exterminated humanity -- that's just evolution!"
- Greg was one of the founding team at OpenAI who seemed cynical and embarrased about the org's mission (basically, the focus on AGI and x-risk) in the early days. I remember at ICLR Puerto Rico, in 2016, the summer after OpenAI was founded, a bunch of researchers sitting out onWe’re really grateful to Jan for everything he's done for OpenAI, and we know he'll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to explain a bit about how we think about our overall strategy. First, we have
- I’m super excited to release our 100+ page collaborative agenda - led by @usmananwar391 - on “Foundational Challenges In Assuring Alignment and Safety of LLMs” alongside 35+ co-authors from NLP, ML, and AI Safety communities! Some highlights below...
