AI Ethics Is Simpler Than You Think
We don’t need to figure out the meaning of life to get AI right, because it’s actually a limited tool.
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 figure out the meaning of life to get AI right, because it’s actually a limited tool.
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.