Joe Carlsmith on How We Change Our Minds About AI Risk
Future of Life Institute Podcast
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The Danger of the Alignment Discourse
I don't think whether the systems have sort of been dangerous so far is all that much of a signal. I do also think we're getting some amount of disturbing evidence about basic features of the alignment discourse seeming to hold. There was this brief period where when Microsoft deployed this chatbot Bing and deployed it kind of prematurely, partly perhaps out of a desire to kind of get an upper hand in some sort of competitive dynamic. That itself is worrying premature deployment because you're kind of competing with someone else. But then, you know,you have this chatbot now, and it was doing just crazy stuff, right? It was like blackmailing people, it was threatening people. The thing we
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