
Anonymous advice: If you want to reduce AI risk, should you take roles that advance AI capabilities? (Article)
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AI-AGI Safety - The Difference Between Capabilities and Safety
The distinction between capabilities and safety is so fuzzy as to often not be useful. Capabilities work will be highly incentivised, far in access of the marginal boost from ADK individuals,. And here's another numbered list, 1. The field of AI-AGI safety has gone through a process of expansion to include ever more approaches which were previously seen as too far away from the most extreme risks. Mechanistic interpretability or aligning existing deep learning models are today regarded by many as a valuable long-term safety bet. 2. Developing a career in other areas that may code as capabilities could lead to individuals being prominent in various fields of machine learning. 3. Philanthropic funders
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