In no particular order, here’s a collection of Twitter screenshots of people attacking AI Safety. A lot of them are poorly reasoned, and some of them are simply ad-hominem. Still, these types of tweets are influential, and are widely circulated among AI capabilities researchers.
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(That one wasn’t actually a critique, but it did convey useful information about the state of AI Safety’s optics.)
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Conclusions
I originally intended to end this post with a call to action, but we mustn’t propose solutions immediately. In lieu of a specific proposal, I ask you, can the optics of AI safety be improved?
20 Critiques of AI Safety That I Found on Twitter
In no particular order, here’s a collection of Twitter screenshots of people attacking AI Safety. A lot of them are poorly reasoned, and some of them are simply ad-hominem. Still, these types of tweets are influential, and are widely circulated among AI capabilities researchers.
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(That one wasn’t actually a critique, but it did convey useful information about the state of AI Safety’s optics.)6
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Conclusions
I originally intended to end this post with a call to action, but we mustn’t propose solutions immediately. In lieu of a specific proposal, I ask you, can the optics of AI safety be improved?