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November 2019 Newsletter #AI

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I'm happy to announce that Nate Soares and Ben Levinstein's “Cheating Death in Damascus” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Philosophy (previously voted the second-highest-quality journal in philosophy).

In other news, MIRI researcher Buck Shlegeris has written over 12,000 words on a variety of MIRI-relevant topics in an EA Forum AMA. (Example topics: advice for software engineerswhat alignment plans tend to look like; and decision theory.)

Other updates

News and links

  • Artificial Intelligence Research Needs Responsible Publication Norms: Crootof provides a good review of the issue on Lawfare.
  • Stuart Russell's new book is out: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (excerpt). Rohin Shah's review does an excellent job of contextualizing Russell's views within the larger AI safety ecosystem, and Rohin highlights the quote:

    The task is, fortunately, not the following: given a machine that possesses a high degree of intelligence, work out how to control it. If that were the task, we would be toast. A machine viewed as a black box, a fait accompli, might as well have arrived from outer space. And our chances of controlling a superintelligent entity from outer space are roughly zero. Similar arguments apply to methods of creating AI systems that guarantee we won’t understand how they work; these methods include whole-brain emulation — creating souped-up electronic copies of human brains — as well as methods based on simulated evolution of programs. I won’t say more about these proposals because they are so obviously a bad idea.

  • Jacob Steinhardt releases an AI Alignment Research Overview.
  • Patrick LaVictoire's AlphaStar: Impressive for RL Progress, Not for AGI Progress raises some important questions about how capable today's state-of-the-art systems are.

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January 14, 2020 at 08:02PM by Rob Bensinger, Khareem Sudlow