Archive - Alan’s Substack

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Let's talk about the CAIS statement on extinction risk from AI

The Center for AI Safety released a public statement on extinction risk from AI. The idea for a statement came from David Krueger, a Cambridge AI…

Jun 4 •

March 2023

A prosaic case for not building AGI - Part III

Controlled Progress

Mar 30 •

A Public Data Trust for Training Data

Reclaiming the Digital Commons

Mar 25 •

February 2023

A prosaic case for not building AGI - Part II

How could things go wrong?

Feb 10 •

January 2023

A prosaic case for not building AGI - Part I

Moving fast and breaking things

Jan 20 •

Alignment is not enough

I think alignment is necessary, but not enough for AI to go well. By alignment, I mean us being able to get an AI to do what we want it to do, without…

Jan 11 •

This is Alan’s Substack.

Jan 7 •

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