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“…e correlated behaviors are useful and conditional (“seeking only the power and resources necessary for their human-prompted task, in a prosocial way”), this isn’t actually how reinforcement learning works, and instead we get a complicated distribution of…”

“The most powerful case for doing so comes from a focus on justice for the most vulnerable, who have limited access to healthcare.”

“(For an alternative take on AI’s existential risk, in Persuasion this week Matt Lutz explores why it’s time to worry about AI.) This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.”

“The company released a 15,000-word manifesto on Sept 14 that it sees as a kind of constitution to guide development of its cutting-edge AI models.”

“Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly gives you one answer.”

“But to be fair to myself, Power and Progress doesn’t really focus on the danger of panopticons either.”

“Not only am I profoundly interested in increasingly less abstract questions about how AI progress might disrupt society, but I’m also becoming much more of a power user because AI programming tools have reached the point where they’re now quite helpful with…”

“It's like the personal computer just dropped, and no one really knows what to do with it, and the only thing you can do right now is word processing — which is powerful.”