Do you have a take on Shane Legg? Or any insight to his safety efforts? In his old blog and the XiXiDu interview, he was pretty solid on alignment, back when it was far harder to say such things publicly. And he made this comment in this post, just before starting DeepMind:
A better approach would be to act as a parent organisation, a kind of AGI VC company, that backs a number of promising teams. Teams that fail to make progress get dropped and new teams with new ideas are picked up. General ideas of AGI safety are also developed in the background until such a time when one of the teams starts to make serious progress. At this time the focus would be to make the emerging AGI design as safe as possible.
Do you have a take on Shane Legg? Or any insight to his safety efforts? In his old blog and the XiXiDu interview, he was pretty solid on alignment, back when it was far harder to say such things publicly. And he made this comment in this post, just before starting DeepMind:
I’m even more positive on Shane Legg than Demis Hassabis, but I don’t have the impression he’s in charge.