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Noah Smith

What Noah Smith thinks about AI alignment

@noah-smith · 44 positions · 1 change of mind

Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  1. Our readingChina is more likely to cooperate on AI safety if the US maintains a clear and comfortable lead in AI capabilities.

    Their wordsBut given the Chinese Communist Party’s power-seeking nature, it seems much more likely that China would agree to cooperate on AI safety if U.S. capabilities were comfortably ahead.

    ↗America is still beating China in the AI racenoahpinion.blog

    ChinaAmerica

    Interesting
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  3. Our readingTrue AI alignment is impossible because obedience and benevolence are fundamentally incompatible goals.

    Their wordsAI alignment will forever be balancing the tradeoff between paperclip-maximizing and disempowerment, because these two rival concepts of alignment are fundamentally incompatible.

    ↗Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!noahpinion.blog

    Interesting
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  5. Our readingAI-designed superviruses outweigh every other risk in the world right now.

    Their wordsWhy AI-designed superviruses outweigh every other risk in the world right now:

    ↗@Noahpinion on Xx.com

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