AI Ethics Is Simpler Than You Think
We don’t need to agree on the meaning of life, just on what it means for programmers to build well.
Mind & Human Nature
What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
We don’t need to agree on the meaning of life, just on what it means for programmers to build well.
We’re worrying about the wrong arms race with China.
The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.
How to see clearly what lies ahead
Why rationalists can’t answer the doomers or the boomers
“Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow.