Does anyone know how Brian Christian came to be interested in AI alignment and why he decided to write this book instead of a book about a different topic? (I haven’t read the book and looked at the Amazon preview but couldn’t find the answer there.)
The book is dedicated “for Peter, who convinced me”. Maybe that mysterious Peter is the ultimate cause of Christian’s interest in Al alignment and his decision to write a book about it?
Does anyone know how Brian Christian came to be interested in AI alignment and why he decided to write this book instead of a book about a different topic? (I haven’t read the book and looked at the Amazon preview but couldn’t find the answer there.)
The book is dedicated “for Peter, who convinced me”. Maybe that mysterious Peter is the ultimate cause of Christian’s interest in Al alignment and his decision to write a book about it?
Seems like you were right, and the Peter in question is Peter Eckersley. I just saw in this post:
That post did not link to a source, but I found this tweet where Brian Christian says: