I think it was pretty good at what it set out to do, namely laying out basics of control and getting people into the AI control state-of-mind.
I collected feedback on which exercises attendees most liked. All six who gave feedback mentioned the last problem (“incriminating evidence”, i.e. what to do if you are an AI company that catches your AIs red-handed). I think they are right; I’d have more high-level planning (and less details of monitoring-schemes) if I were to re-run this.
Attendees wanted to have group discussions, and that took a large fraction of the time. I should have taken that into account in advance; some discussion is valuable. I also think that the marginal group discussion time wasn’t valuable, and should have pushed for less when organizing.
Attendees generally found the baseline answers (solutions) helpful, I think.
A couple people left early. I figure it’s for a combination of 1) the exercises were pretty cognitively demanding, 2) weak motivation (these people were not full-time professionals), and 3) the schedule and practicalities were a bit chaotic.
How well did this workshop/exercise set go?
I think it was pretty good at what it set out to do, namely laying out basics of control and getting people into the AI control state-of-mind.
I collected feedback on which exercises attendees most liked. All six who gave feedback mentioned the last problem (“incriminating evidence”, i.e. what to do if you are an AI company that catches your AIs red-handed). I think they are right; I’d have more high-level planning (and less details of monitoring-schemes) if I were to re-run this.
Attendees wanted to have group discussions, and that took a large fraction of the time. I should have taken that into account in advance; some discussion is valuable. I also think that the marginal group discussion time wasn’t valuable, and should have pushed for less when organizing.
Attendees generally found the baseline answers (solutions) helpful, I think.
A couple people left early. I figure it’s for a combination of 1) the exercises were pretty cognitively demanding, 2) weak motivation (these people were not full-time professionals), and 3) the schedule and practicalities were a bit chaotic.