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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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This petition has the most rigorous legal arguments in my opinion.
Others I know also back a block (#JusticeForSuchir, Ed Zitron, Stop AI, creatives for copyright). What’s cool is how diverse the backers are, from skeptics to doomers, and from tech whistleblowers to creatives.
Is OpenAI going for profit in order to attract more investment/talent a good or bad thing for AI safety?
On the one hand people want American companies to win the AGI race, and this could contribute to that. On the other hand, OpenAI would be then be more tied to making profit which could conflict with AI safety goals.
It’s bad to support a race here. Given that no-one has a way to safely constrain open-endedly learning autonomous machinery, and there are actual limits to control.
Yes I agree it's bad to support a race, but it's not as simple as that.