Education
What is the AI Control Problem?
Getting help without endangering ourselves One day, AI systems will be better at thinking and acting on that thinking than we are. In essence, that means that they’ll be on the top of the food […]
Philosophy
Education
Why Malignant Failures are Scary (Skynet 2)
You might have read our recent piece on malignant failure modes and found yourself still wondering: what is it that makes me so afraid of these scenarios? I wanted to drop by and share current […]
Education
Will we ever have a Skynet?
The Likelihood of a Terminator Scenario So what about a world in which machines see us as a threat and take over? Judging by what experts like Nick Bostrom of Oxford University say, it all […]
Philosophy
What is the Treacherous Turn?
What is the Treacherous Turn? Will robots ever turn against us like we see in the movies and read about in sci-fi books? One particular theory seems to think so. The Treacherous Turn is a […]