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This is a crosspost from the new Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter by Anima International. You can subscribe on Substack if you are interested in following these efforts. Audio reading also available on Substack.
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1. Raise a question I see as crucially important to the goal of aligning AI to animal welfare...
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Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts:
* Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do
* NEST is an opinionated ideas-fi...
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While I'm on board with concerns about even aligned AI being aligned with the "wrong" people, I generally hate the use of the phrase "the real X" to suggest, often without any justification, that there can only be one "real" X. It creates a false conflict between goals that are otherwise arguably complementary. You can't, after all, guarantee that an AI will be compassionate to animals if you're unable to guarantee anything at all about its behaviour or long term plans.
Fair point. It’s more nuanced later on: “Almost all of the conversations about risk have to do with the potential consequences of AI systems pursuing goals that diverge from what they were programmed to do and that are not in the interests of humans. Everyone can get behind this notion of AI alignment and safety, but this is only one side of the danger. Imagine what could unfold if AI does do what humans want.”