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110. Alex Turner - Will powerful AIs tend to seek power?

Towards Data Science

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Do You Think You've Lost 4 Years of Research Time?

Alignment research seems to have evolved quite a bit in terms of its focus. There seems now, for example, to be a lot more emphasis on prosaic ai r a g i development. And this research is somewhat independent of the recent success we've had since 20 14 in deep larning. So do you remember a particular argument that changed your view from like, oh, this is an elon musk thing i pay no attention to? Like, was there something like that? Or was it more an overarching, kind of a distilled sense of what the book was sayinghum?"

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