I have a couple of new Substack posts up on the moral hazards of AI development:
Big Tech’s Unethical AI Experiment on Humanity
No one knows how to reliably test for AI safety
There’s also a new open letter that anyone can sign advocating for a pause on giant AI experiments. For an earlier post on why I think the current path of AI development is unacceptably dangerous, see here.
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