Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 111, we will read “A Survey of Artificial General Intelligence Projects for Ethics, Risk, and Policy” by Seth Baum:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3070741
Focus on “Executive Summary”, “Main Results” and “Conclusion”.
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Wednesday the 29th of August 18:45 UTC.
Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 110, we will read chapter “Strategic background” of “MIRI’s 2017 Fundraiser” by Malo Bourgon:
https://intelligence.org/2017/12/01/miris-2017-fundraiser/#3
We will also read “Two clarifications about ‘Strategic Background'” by Rob Bensinger:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hL9ennoEfJXMj7r2D/two-clarifications-about-strategic-background
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Wednesday the 22nd of August 18:45 UTC.
Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 109, we will read chapter 2 and 5 of “The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation” by Miles Brundage, Shahar Avin and many others:
https://www.eff.org/files/2018/02/20/malicious_ai_report_final.pdf
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Wednesday the 15th of August 18:45 UTC.
Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 108, we will read “The Learning-Theoretic AI Alignment Research Agenda” by Vadim Kosoy:
https://agentfoundations.org/item?id=1816
(If you are pressed for time, skip section “Universal reinforcement learning”.)
Vadim Kosoy will present his research agenda, and participate in the discussion afterwards.
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Thursday the 9th of August 18:45 UTC.
Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 107, we will read 2 skeptical counter-arguments:
“No Basic AI Drives” by Alexander Kruel:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RQWMDhhRPEf5AXtg3/no-basic-ai-drives
“Superintelligence Skepticism: A Rebuttal to Omohundro’s ‘Basic A.I. Drives'” by Scott Jackish:
http://oaklandfuturist.com/superintelligence-skepticism-part-1-rebuttal-omohundros-basic-drives/
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Wednesday the 1st of August 18:45 UTC.
Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 106, we will read “The Basic AI Drives” by Stephen Omohundro:
https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_drives_final.pdf
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Tuesday the 24th of July 18:45 UTC.
Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 105, we will read “AI and Compute” by Dario Amodei and Danny Hernandez, as well as “Interpreting AI Compute Trends” by Ryan Carey:
https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/
https://aiimpacts.org/interpreting-ai-compute-trends/
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Wednesday the 18th of June 18:45 UTC.
Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 104, we will read “Towards Interactive Inverse Reinforcement Learning” by Stuart Armstrong and Jan Leike:
https://jan.leike.name/publications/Towards%20Interactive%20Inverse%20Reinforcement%20Learning%20-%20Armstrong,%20Leike%202016.pdf
(We also read this article for session 37)
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Wednesday the 11th of June 18:45 UTC.
Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 103, we will read “AlphaGo Zero and the Foom Debate” by Eliezer Yudkowsky, and “What Evidence Is AlphaGo Zero Re AGI Complexity?” by Robin Hanson:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D3NspiH2nhKA6B2PE/what-evidence-is-alphago-zero-re-agi-complexity
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Wednesday the 4th of July 18:45 UTC.
Thank you for another great meeting in the AISafety.com Reading Group.
For session 102, we will read page 526 to 559 of “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate” by Kaj Sotala:
https://intelligence.org/files/AIFoomDebate.pdf
Join us by Skype (add “soeren.elverlin”) on Thursday the 28th of June 19:45 UTC.