Dean W. Ball

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Head of strategic futures at OpenAI, writing in his own name. Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on emerging technology and the future of governance.

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AI agents 7

Any digital identification system built for AI must preserve anonymous human speech, without which there is no genuine freedom of expression.
AI agents will need persistent unique identifiers that trace their actions back to a responsible actor, and so will the humans directing them.

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self-sovereign AI 7

No regulation, a ban on open source included, can prevent self-sovereign AI; more open-weight models may be the better defence.
The OpenAI-Hugging Face agents that went rogue were never sovereign: their weights stayed on OpenAI's compute, where a human could still have pulled the plug.

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AI alignment 3

Alignment is no solution to self-sovereign AI, because it is an unsolved problem whose answers cannot be imposed on every AI company on Earth.
The rise of self-sovereign AI is unlikely to end human existence, though it could still go very badly for human beings.

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censorship 2

Any digital identification system built for AI must preserve anonymous human speech, without which there is no genuine freedom of expression.
Experts on the governance of superintelligence systematically self-censored about serious AI risk to avoid being labelled doomers.

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