AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Alignment

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Alignment

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AI will transform our world in deep and unexpected ways. We must understand our options to rethink our goals.
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Eric Drexler
Orchestrating Intelligence: How Comprehensive Specialization Transforms AI
In the emerging AI ecosystem, even being a generalist becomes a specialized role.
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Coercive Cooperation: Forcing Win-Win Outcomes in an AI-driven Transition
Strategic pressure can be leveraged, not to force concessions, but to overcome barriers to mutually benefit.
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Don’t Bet the Future on Winning an AI Arms Race
Radical uncertainties in AI development and military applications favor security through cooperative stability. (Includes bonus footnotes on recent…
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LLMs and Beyond: All Roads Lead to Latent Space
Essential concepts for understanding AI today and prospects for tomorrow. (Bonus footnotes: the maths of exponential orthogonality & updated citations…
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Large Knowledge Models
Navigating the AI transition with AI assistance: Deeply integrated knowledge as a target for differential acceleration
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The Bypass Principle: How AI flows around obstacles
AI will drive change, but even obvious obstacles may prove illusory. Expect advances to flow through new channels.
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AI Safety Without Trusting AI
To ensure AI safety, we’ll need advanced AI capabilities. But how can we trust entities smarter than us? (Spoiler: We don’t have to.)
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AI-Driven Strategic Transformation: Preparing to Pivot
Prospects for deep AI-driven transformation of military and economic affairs call for rethinking national strategies. We must prepare to pivot when…
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Incoherent AI scenarios are a threat
Coherent strategies for a hypercapable world call for coherent scenarios. Incoherence could be lethal.
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Paretotopian Goal Alignment
Prospects for greatly expanded resources can reduce incentives for greed and conflict, even when dividing those resources is a zero-sum game.
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Security without Dystopia: Structured Transparency
Emerging technologies and innovative governance can reshape the landscape of security, privacy, and international cooperation.
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AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Alignment
AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Alignment
AI will transform our world in deep and unexpected ways. We must understand our options to rethink our goals.
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