On the one hand, “The Center for AI Safety” really puts me off. Who would want to associate with a bunch of people who are worried about the safety of something that doesn’t even exist yet? Certainly you want to be concerned with Safety, but it should be subsidiary to the more appealing goal of actually getting something interesting to work.
On the other hand, if I weren’t trying to have positive karma, I would have zero or negative karma, suggesting I am NOT the target demographic for this institute. And if I am not the target demographic, changing the name is a good idea because I like SIAI.
Well, the AI exists, just not in the science fictional sense. E.g. there could be a centre working on safety of self driving cars and similar technology. I’m actually kind of curious how the ‘change of direction’ pans out; when people an’t immediately classify this as crackpot based on the name, there will be concise summaries of the topic online created by those whom wasted time looking into it.
On the one hand, “The Center for AI Safety” really puts me off. Who would want to associate with a bunch of people who are worried about the safety of something that doesn’t even exist yet? Certainly you want to be concerned with Safety, but it should be subsidiary to the more appealing goal of actually getting something interesting to work.
On the other hand, if I weren’t trying to have positive karma, I would have zero or negative karma, suggesting I am NOT the target demographic for this institute. And if I am not the target demographic, changing the name is a good idea because I like SIAI.
Well, the AI exists, just not in the science fictional sense. E.g. there could be a centre working on safety of self driving cars and similar technology. I’m actually kind of curious how the ‘change of direction’ pans out; when people an’t immediately classify this as crackpot based on the name, there will be concise summaries of the topic online created by those whom wasted time looking into it.