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What happens if AI just keeps getting smarter? Our latest release, made in partnership with ControlAI, explores how we go from today's chatbots to AI vastly smarter than all of humanity. With corporations racing to build God-like AI, is humanity on the verge of extinction?

This entire thread is a clearly put example of the type of reasoning I deconstruct in cognition.cafe/p/ai-alignment… I recommend reading both!

FUD doesn't make the case for the anti-thesis. It works by raising the costs of making the case for the correct thesis. No one takes voluntary commitments seriously, but they make rallying against corps and passing laws harder.

You think politicians won't listen about AGI risk? Or that you can't talk to them? Think again! This is THE definite piece writing up how ControlAI did it, and you can too!

referring to AI models as "just math" or "matrix multiplication" is as uselessly reductive as referring to tigers as "just biology" or "biochemical reactions"

Just hit the brakes

Was a great discussion with David. Thanks for having me on!

Writing about extinction risks from AI is hard. On one hand, I believe that this is an emergency, with a strong possibility of hitting a point of no-return in 2-5 years. On the other hand, I believe the best way to tackle it is to plan methodically and then calmly do all that

Great podcast with the ever insightful Max Tegmark , making beautifully clear a lot of the most important challenges we face! Give it a watch!

Credit where credit is due

A mere two years ago, the idea of AI psyops and propaganda was still a fanciful notion. Today, we are facing semantic collapse. Can you trust anything you see online anymore? Could you ever?

Google's Veo 3 AI generates hyper-realistic videos of election fraud and rioting that experts say could fuel social unrest. Concerningly, as Connor Leahy commented to Time, "the fact the tech industry can’t even protect against such well-understood, obvious risks is a clear

What may be a just process we should follow to eradicate an entire species? Does it take into account sentience, harm caused to people, our aesthetics? Is there even a just process? Should we set up "It's obvious!" as a precedent for something that large or pause and reflect?

Beautifully put

37 UK politicians backed the campaign on AI extinction risks ControlAI briefed No10 1000 UK citizens contacted their MPs 2500 US citizens contacted their senators 2 partnerships with Youtubers and more in the pipeline Soon, 50000 people on the newsletter Proud of ControlAI!

Impactful paper finally putting this case to rest, thank god