Karl von Wendt

Karma: 756

German writer of science-fiction novels and children’s books (pen name Karl Olsberg). I blog and create videos about AI risks in German at www.ki-risiken.de and youtube.com/karlolsbergautor.

The benefits and risks of optimism (about AI safety)

Karl von Wendt3 Dec 2023 12:45 UTC

−7 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

The Game of Dominance

Karl von Wendt27 Aug 2023 11:04 UTC

24 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

Did Bengio and Tegmark lose a debate about AI x-risk against LeCun and Mitchell?

Karl von Wendt25 Jun 2023 16:59 UTC

106 points

53 comments7 min readLW link

A Friendly Face (Another Failure Story)

Karl von Wendt, Sofia Bharadia, PeterDrotos, Artem Korotkov, mespa and mruwnik

20 Jun 2023 10:31 UTC

65 points

21 comments16 min readLW link

Agentic Mess (A Failure Story)

Karl von Wendt, Sofia Bharadia, PeterDrotos, Artem Korotkov, mespa and mruwnik

6 Jun 2023 13:09 UTC

46 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

Coordination by common knowledge to prevent uncontrollable AI

Karl von Wendt14 May 2023 13:37 UTC

10 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

We don’t need AGI for an amazing future

Karl von Wendt4 May 2023 12:10 UTC

18 points

32 comments5 min readLW link

Paths to failure

Karl von Wendt and mespa

25 Apr 2023 8:03 UTC

29 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Prediction: any uncontrollable AI will turn earth into a giant computer

Karl von Wendt17 Apr 2023 12:30 UTC

11 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

What can we learn from Lex Fridman’s interview with Sam Altman?

Karl von Wendt27 Mar 2023 6:27 UTC

56 points

22 comments9 min readLW link

Alignment works both ways

Karl von Wendt7 Mar 2023 10:41 UTC

23 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

VIRTUA: a novel about AI alignment

Karl von Wendt12 Jan 2023 9:37 UTC

46 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Limits to the Controllability of AGI

Roman_Yampolskiy, Remmelt Ellen and Karl von Wendt

20 Nov 2022 19:18 UTC

10 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Uncontrollable AI as an Existential Risk

Karl von Wendt9 Oct 2022 10:36 UTC

21 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

Let’s talk about uncontrollable AI

Karl von Wendt9 Oct 2022 10:34 UTC

15 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Where are the red lines for AI?

Karl von Wendt5 Aug 2022 9:34 UTC

25 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

Trust-maximizing AGI

Jan and Karl von Wendt

25 Feb 2022 15:13 UTC

7 points

26 comments9 min readLW link

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