Hinton legitimizes the AI safety movement
Hmm. He seems pretty periphery to the AI safety movement, especially compared with (e.g.) Yoshua Bengio.
Yeah that’s true. I meant this more as “Hinton is proof that AI safety is a real field and very serious people are concerned about AI x-risk.”
Bengio and Hinton are the two most influential “old guard” AI researchers turned safety advocates as far as I can tell, with Bengio being more active in research. Your e.g. is super misleading, since my list would have been something like:
Bengio
Hinton
Russell
Hmm. He seems pretty periphery to the AI safety movement, especially compared with (e.g.) Yoshua Bengio.
Yeah that’s true. I meant this more as “Hinton is proof that AI safety is a real field and very serious people are concerned about AI x-risk.”
Bengio and Hinton are the two most influential “old guard” AI researchers turned safety advocates as far as I can tell, with Bengio being more active in research. Your e.g. is super misleading, since my list would have been something like:
Bengio
Hinton
Russell