What Scott Aaronson thinks about AI alignment
Theoretical computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on quantum computing and computational complexity. Writes the blog Shtetl-Optimized, where he has kept both his old forecasts and his later verdicts on them in public.
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2 dated positions, 2008 to 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Scott Aaronson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldBecause a few specialists already devote themselves to superintelligent AI, the rest of us have correspondingly less reason to spend our own effort on it.
No longer holdsI accepted what’s turned into a two-year position at OpenAI, thinking about what theoretical computer science can do for AI safety.
Saidone must never use radical ignorance as an excuse to default, in practice, to the guess that everything will stay basically the same.
↗On being wrong about AIscottaaronson.blog 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsprecisely because smart people do devote brain-cycles to these possibilities, the rest of us have correspondingly less need to.