The development of artificial intelligence
- AlphaGo - The Movie - DeepMind - A documentary exploring what artificial intelligence can reveal about the 3000-year-old game of Go, and what that can teach us about the future potential of artificial intelligence. (Video - 1 hour 30 mins.)
- The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 - A fun and interesting exploration of artificial intelligence by the popular blogger Tim Urban. (45 mins.)
- AI Timelines: Where the Arguments, and the "Experts," Stand (13 mins.)
Other resources on aligning artificial intelligence
- Why AI alignment could be hard (18 mins)
- AGI Safety Fundamentals Curricula
- My personal cruxes for working on AI safety (65 mins.)
- Resources I send to AI researchers about AI safety (13 min)
- Professor Stuart Russell on the flaws that make today's AI architecture unsafe & a new approach that could fix it (Podcast - 2 hours 15 mins.)
- Some Background on Our Views Regarding Advanced Artificial Intelligence - Open Philanthropy Project - An explication of why there is a serious possibility that progress in artificial intelligence could precipitate a transition comparable to the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions. (1 hour)
- How might we align transformative AI if it's developed very soon? (53 mins.)
- The Precipice - Chapter 5 (pages 138-152) - Unaligned Artificial Intelligence (25 mins.)
- What Failure Looks Like (12 mins.) - Two specific stories about what a very bad society-wide AI alignment failure could look like, which differ considerably from the classic “intelligence explosion” story
- AGI Safety from first principles (1 hour 15 mins.) - one AI researcher’s take on the specific factors for the problem of aligning general AI
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and The Problem of Control (Book)
- The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Book)
- AI Safety researcher career review (10 mins.)
Governance for artificial intelligence
- The new 30-person research team in DC investigating how emerging technologies could affect national security - 80,000 Hours - How might international security be altered if the impact of machine learning is similar in scope to that of electricity? (Podcast - 2 hours)
- Technology Roulette: Managing Loss of Control as Many Militaries Pursue Technological Superiority - Center for a New American Security - An argument for how advances in military technology (including but not limited to AI) can impede relevant decision making and create risk, thus demanding greater attention by the national security establishment. (60 mins.)
Technical AI alignment work
- AI Alignment Landscape (Video - 30 mins.)
- AI safety starter pack (7 mins.)
- How to pursue a career in technical AI alignment (59 mins.)
- Technical Alignment Curriculum (readings for a 7 week course)
- The Alignment Forum, especially their core sequences
Criticisms of worries about AI risk
- How sure are we about this AI stuff? (26 mins.)
- A tale of 2.75 orthogonality theses (20 mins.)
- Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case (41 mins.)
- My highly personal skepticism braindump on existential risk from artificial intelligence (17 mins.)
- How to know if AI is about to destroy civilization (summary, 2 mins.)
- The AI Messiah (and the first comment) (5 mins.)
- How good is humanity at coordination? (4 mins.)
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