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Hi Luis, This is a good idea for an experiment—it’s nice test of the substantial structure that I build into…
The risks are real. https://x.com/DKokotajlo/status/2099601843131478030 https://x.com/paulfchristiano/status/2097733214303645729 https://thezvi.substack.com/p/jacob-coxon-warns-of-human-extinction
I disagree with the perspectives described here and wrote with my co-authors on the very real catastrophic potential of AI…
I don’t have much to say beyond: (1) I emphatically agree with everything Berg says, and (2) I am appalled…
I don’t think focusing on the label matters so much for answering the question. Substitute “artificial intelligence’, if you don’t…
It just occurred to me that one could subject one of the major AI companies’ LLMs to the aforesaid experiments…
William Sage, a leading health law scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences. There are not many law faculty elected to any branch of the NAS, so this is especially notable.
UPDATE: Susan Wolf (Minnesota) was also elected this year (I'd missed that).
Somewhat uncharacteristically, I don’t think I have the energy for a knock-down-drag-out fight on this subject, even though I find…