The Future of AI

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i in the short term is going to produce immensely powerful tools we can use these tools to help humans with their human problems that they had before ai ever came on the scene. We do not have mechanisms to identify what are the sets of values that an ai system should be aligned to and i think it is quite short-sighted to say let's just pump in more text to large language models. By the time we get to this stage there will be many narrow ai applications that will be strong enough to actually put humans in a catastrophic risk so we need to start from there.

In this episode, we delve into the frontier of AI and the challenges surrounding AI alignment. The AI / Crypto overlap at Zuzalu sparked discussions on topics like ZKML, MEV bots, and the integration of AI agents into the Ethereum landscape.

However, the focal point was the alignment conversation, which showcased both pessimistic and resigned optimistic perspectives. We hear from Nate Sores of MIRI, who offers a downstream view on AI risk, and Deger Turan, who emphasizes the importance of human alignment as a prerequisite for aligning AI. Their discussions touch on epistemology, individual preferences, and the potential of AI to assist in personal and societal growth.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro 1:50 Guests

5:30 NATE SOARES 7:25 MIRI 13:30 Human Coordination 17:00 Dangers of Superintelligence 21:00 AI’s Big Moment 24:45 Chances of Doom 35:35 A Serious Threat 42:45 Talent is Scarce 48:20 Solving the Alignment Problem 59:35 Dealing with Pessimism 1:03:45 The Sliver of Utopia

1:14:00 DEGER TURAN 1:17:00 Solving Human Alignment 1:22:40 Using AI to Solve Problems 1:26:30 AI Objectives Institute 1:31:30 Epistemic Security 1:36:18 Curating AI Content 1:41:00 Scalable Coordination 1:47:15 Building Evolving Systems 1:54:00 Independent Flexible Systems 1:58:30 The Problem is the Solution 2:03:30 A Better Future

----- Resources

Nate Soares https://twitter.com/So8res?s=20

Deger Turan https://twitter.com/degerturann?s=20

MIRI https://intelligence.org/

Less Wrong AI Alignment xhttps://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-alignment-intro-materials

AI Objectives Institute https://aiobjectives.org/

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