AI may radically accelerate technology development. That might be extremely good or extremely bad. There are currently no good explanations for how either would happen, so it’s hard to predict which, or when, or whether. The understanding necessary to guide the future to a good outcome may depend more on uncovering causes of technological progress than on reasoning about AI.| Better without AI
Maybe AI will kill you before you finish reading this section. The extreme scenarios typically considered by the AI safety movement are possible in principle, but unfortunately no one has any idea how to prevent them. This book discusses moderate catastrophes instead, offering pragmatic approaches to avoiding or diminishing them.| Better without AI
To give you constructive feedback: The list here still feels a bit loose, though. Is AGI a distinct property or a group of other properties? What differentiates super intelligent from mind-like? Are motivations and morals another scary property or more of a lens to look at artificial intelligence and understand its agency and hence scariness? And where are the social aspects of the AI, the way it changes social interaction, enables surveillance and oppression etc. - is that all in the power c...| betterwithout.ai
