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Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours cover image

Four: Brian Christian on artificial intelligence

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Is There a Difference Between Human Behavior and Human Irrationality?

Ai safety is increasingly borrowing from cognitive science, that we need sort of formal models of human foibles. If you model the human as always doing exactly what they want, then you might end up observing what appears to be a contradiction and concluding that the human preferences like ar gibberish,. You don't want to do that. I feel sorry for the a systems cusa w w have such an easier time understanding humans than us.

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