The main source of skepticism of AI safety research, is that it’s unknown how advanced current AIs are and how fast it is improving. The most impressive reasoning task I have seen an AI model do is this one, done by PaLM by Google:
The model was prompted with this text:
Michael is at that really famous museum in France looking at its most famous painting. However, the artist who made this painting just makes Michael think of his favorite cartoon character from his childhood. What was the country of origin of the thing that the cartoon character usually holds in his hand?
And the model answered this:
The most famous painting in the Louvre is the Mona Lisa. The artist who made the Mona Lisa is Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci is also the name of the main character in the cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Leonardo da Vinci is from Italy. The thing that Leonardo da Vinci usually holds in his hand is a katana. The country of origin of the katana is Japan. The answer is “Japan”.
This example can be used in a range of situations.
Artificial intelligence isn’t limited in the same ways the human brain is.
Firstly, it isn’t limited to only run on a single set of hardware, it can be duplicated and speeded up to be thousands of times faster than humans, and work on multiple tasks in parallel, assuming powerful enough processors are available.
Further, AI isn’t limited to our intelligence, but can be altered and improved with more data, longer training time and smarter training methods. While the human brain today is superior to AI’s on tasks requiring deep thinking and general intelligence, there is no law preventing AI’s from one day surpassing us.
If artificial intelligence were to surpass human intelligence, it would likely become powerful enough to create an utopia lasting a long long time, or spell the end of humanity.
Thus, doing AI safety research before such an event becomes vital in order to increase the odds of a good outcome.
What if AI safety could put you on the forefront of sustainable business?
The revolution in AI has been profound, it definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there. -Sergey Brin, Founder of Google
Annual investments in AI increased eightfold from 2015 to 2021, reaching 93 billion usd.
This massive growth is making people ever more dependent on AI, and with that potential risks increases.
Prioritizing AI safety is therefore becoming increasingly important in order to operate a sustainable business, with the benefits of lower risks and improved public perception.
What if you could make a massive impact in a quickly growing field of research?
As artificial intelligence continues to advance, the potential risks increase as well.
In the words of Stephen Hawking “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
AI safety is a field of research with the purpose to prevent AI from harming humanity, and due to the risks current and future AI is posing, it is a field in which researchers can have a massive impact.
In the three years from 2016 to 2019, AI research has grown from representing 1.8% to 3.8% of all research papers published worldwide.
With the rapid growth of general AI research, we should expect both the importance as well as the funding for AI safety to increase as well.
Click here, to learn how you can start your journey to contribute to AI safety research.
Notes
Depending on context, this text can easily be shortened by removing the third to last and second to last paragraphs.
I used this graph to get the growth of AI publications:
Could working on AI safety put you on the forefront of sustainable development?
As AI is becoming increasingly advanced and relied upon, the recognition of the importance of AI safety is increasing. If this trend continues AI safety will likely become a core part of sustainability, and the businesses that prioritizes AI safety early, will have a more sustainable business as well as a positive impact and improved public perception.
As AI technology is heading towards becoming sophisticated enough to potentially end civilizations, the impact and recognition of those working on AI risks will increase.
What if you could increase your impact by staying ahead of the AI trend?
In a hundred years computers went from being punch card machines, to small tablets in every pocket. In sixty years computers went from displaying only text, to providing an entire virtual reality. In the past three years, AI has become able to write engaging stories and generate photorealistic images.
If this trend continues, AI is set to cause massive change. If this change is positive or negative depends on what is done today. Therefore actions taken today have the potential of massive impact tomorrow.
Why this paragraph?
Most descriptions focus on how terrible AI can be, and fails to convey what the person reading has to gain personally by taking action. Having impact is something most people desire.
Depending on context, the paragraph can be tweaked to include what action the reader should take in order to have massive impact.
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The main source of skepticism of AI safety research, is that it’s unknown how advanced current AIs are and how fast it is improving. The most impressive reasoning task I have seen an AI model do is this one, done by PaLM by Google:
The model was prompted with this text:
And the model answered this:
This example can be used in a range of situations.
AI is like fire, we can use it to enter a new era of civilization, or to burn everything down.
For researchers (mainly)
Artificial intelligence isn’t limited in the same ways the human brain is.
Firstly, it isn’t limited to only run on a single set of hardware, it can be duplicated and speeded up to be thousands of times faster than humans, and work on multiple tasks in parallel, assuming powerful enough processors are available.
Further, AI isn’t limited to our intelligence, but can be altered and improved with more data, longer training time and smarter training methods. While the human brain today is superior to AI’s on tasks requiring deep thinking and general intelligence, there is no law preventing AI’s from one day surpassing us.
If artificial intelligence were to surpass human intelligence, it would likely become powerful enough to create an utopia lasting a long long time, or spell the end of humanity.
Thus, doing AI safety research before such an event becomes vital in order to increase the odds of a good outcome.
What if AI safety could put you on the forefront of sustainable business?
The revolution in AI has been profound, it definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.
-Sergey Brin, Founder of Google
Annual investments in AI increased eightfold from 2015 to 2021, reaching 93 billion usd.
This massive growth is making people ever more dependent on AI, and with that potential risks increases.
Prioritizing AI safety is therefore becoming increasingly important in order to operate a sustainable business, with the benefits of lower risks and improved public perception.
For researchers
What if you could make a massive impact in a quickly growing field of research?
As artificial intelligence continues to advance, the potential risks increase as well.
In the words of Stephen Hawking “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
AI safety is a field of research with the purpose to prevent AI from harming humanity, and due to the risks current and future AI is posing, it is a field in which researchers can have a massive impact.
In the three years from 2016 to 2019, AI research has grown from representing 1.8% to 3.8% of all research papers published worldwide.
With the rapid growth of general AI research, we should expect both the importance as well as the funding for AI safety to increase as well.
Click here, to learn how you can start your journey to contribute to AI safety research.
Notes
Depending on context, this text can easily be shortened by removing the third to last and second to last paragraphs.
I used this graph to get the growth of AI publications:
For tech executives
Could working on AI safety put you on the forefront of sustainable development?
As AI is becoming increasingly advanced and relied upon, the recognition of the importance of AI safety is increasing. If this trend continues AI safety will likely become a core part of sustainability, and the businesses that prioritizes AI safety early, will have a more sustainable business as well as a positive impact and improved public perception.
As AI technology is heading towards becoming sophisticated enough to potentially end civilizations, the impact and recognition of those working on AI risks will increase.
General paragraph for non-technical people
What if you could increase your impact by staying ahead of the AI trend?
In a hundred years computers went from being punch card machines, to small tablets in every pocket. In sixty years computers went from displaying only text, to providing an entire virtual reality. In the past three years, AI has become able to write engaging stories and generate photorealistic images.
If this trend continues, AI is set to cause massive change. If this change is positive or negative depends on what is done today. Therefore actions taken today have the potential of massive impact tomorrow.
Why this paragraph?
Most descriptions focus on how terrible AI can be, and fails to convey what the person reading has to gain personally by taking action. Having impact is something most people desire.
Depending on context, the paragraph can be tweaked to include what action the reader should take in order to have massive impact.
If AI is set to cause massive change, acting now will have a massive impact on the future.