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Nabeel S. Qureshi

What Nabeel S. Qureshi thinks about AI alignment

@nabeel-qureshi · 24 positions · 0 changes of mind

Entrepreneur and essayist; worked at Palantir on health and biology projects, and was a Visiting Scholar in AI at the Mercatus Center.

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    Our readingA priori arguments on empirical matters, such as that AI will certainly kill everyone, are usually wrong however convincing they seem.

    Their wordsBe very suspicious of a priori arguments on empirical matters (e.g. “AI will certainly kill everyone”), they’re usually wrong no matter how convincing. Reality is endlessly surprising.

    ↗Principlesnabeelqu.co

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  3. Our readingRestricting general deep-learning AIs with rules will not work, for the same reason simple rules fail on sprawling ecosystems.

    Their wordsTackling sprawling ecosystems with simple rules is doomed to fail—and, for similar reasons, applying restrictions to deep-learning-based general AIs will not work.

    ↗Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI (WIRED)wired.com

  5. Our readingAIs need prohuman values because humans cannot maintain oversight of AI indefinitely.

    Their wordsWe need to ensure that AIs adopt prohuman values because we cannot maintain oversight of AI indefinitely.

    ↗Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI (WIRED)wired.com

  7. Our readingVirtue ethics may be a more promising paradigm for moral AI than utilitarianism, which would tend to make AI power-seeking, or deontological rules.

    Their wordsUtilitarianism would tend to create a power-seeking AI, and deontological rules are vulnerable to Waluigi-style attacks. Virtue ethics, in which agents are intrinsically motivated to care about certain qualities such as transparency, may be a more promising paradigm.

    ↗Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI (WIRED)wired.com