I recently wrote an introduction text about catastrophic risks from AI. It can be found at my website.
A couple of things I thought I did quite well / better than many other texts I’ve read:[1]
illustrating arguments with lots of concrete examples from empirical research
connecting classical conceptual arguments (e.g. instrumental convergence) to actual mechanistic stories of how things go wrong; giving “the complete story” without omissions
communicating relatively deep technical ideas relatively accessibly
There’s nothing new here for people who have been in the AI circles for a while. I wrote it to address some shortcomings I saw in previous intro texts, and have been linking it to non-experts who want to know why I/others think AI is dangerous. Let me know if you like it!
In contrast, a couple of things I’m a bit unsatisfied by: in retrospect some of the stories are a bit too conjunctive for my taste, my call to action is weak, and I didn’t write much about non-technical aspects as I don’t know that much about them.
Also, I initially wrote the text in Finnish—I’m not aware of other Finnish intro materials—and the English version is a translation.
I recently wrote an introduction text about catastrophic risks from AI. It can be found at my website.
A couple of things I thought I did quite well / better than many other texts I’ve read:[1]
illustrating arguments with lots of concrete examples from empirical research
connecting classical conceptual arguments (e.g. instrumental convergence) to actual mechanistic stories of how things go wrong; giving “the complete story” without omissions
communicating relatively deep technical ideas relatively accessibly
There’s nothing new here for people who have been in the AI circles for a while. I wrote it to address some shortcomings I saw in previous intro texts, and have been linking it to non-experts who want to know why I/others think AI is dangerous. Let me know if you like it!
In contrast, a couple of things I’m a bit unsatisfied by: in retrospect some of the stories are a bit too conjunctive for my taste, my call to action is weak, and I didn’t write much about non-technical aspects as I don’t know that much about them.
Also, I initially wrote the text in Finnish—I’m not aware of other Finnish intro materials—and the English version is a translation.