I found this slide by @ai_risks' @DanHendrycks and thought: "Everyone should enjoy it!" Here's some background: 🧵
May 30: Dan Hendrycks promoted the second X-Risk Open Letter (initiated by his new "Center for AI Safety") https://x.com/DanHendrycks/sta...
May 31: Dan Hendrycks in @TIME magazine: "Evolution tends to produce selfish behavior. Evolutionary pressure will likely ingrain AIs with behaviors that promote self-preservation. …a pathway toward being supplanted as the Earth's dominant species." https://x.com/TIME/status/1664...
July 7: The @BostonGlobe published this profile: "Dan Hendrycks wants to save us from an AI catastrophe. He's not sure he'll succeed." Apparently, his evangelical beliefs have been replaced by a new religion: AI Doomerism. https://archive.vn/Sn1v0
This profile was praised by the "AI Safety" community as being "great and moving." It only "moved" me toward Hendrycks' ML Safety online course – in order to "understand the danger as he does"…
The "Introduction to ML Safety" course (https://course.mlsafety.org/ab... has a comprehensive syllabus. Among the lessons, the "X-Risk Overview" was "Based on slides from Cullen O'Keefe" – Policy & Governance at @OpenAI (https://cullenokeefe.com/)
The most striking presentation was: "Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans" It is based on Dan Hendrycks' paper (with the same title): https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.162...
This is how Dan Hendrycks framed his paper https://x.com/DanHendrycks/sta...
The "Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans" paper was criticized, for example: https://x.com/jeffjarvis/statu...
It's pretty entertaining to go down the Darwinian rabbit hole. But could we please avoid letting these Safety guys determine how #AI should be regulated? Thanks.
@DrTechlash @BostonGlobe That article also states that Hendrycks “was never an EA adherent, even if he brushed up against the movement,” though a post coauthored by Hendrycks himself on the EA Forum says “he was advised by Bastian Stern (now at Open Philanthropy) to get into AI to reduce x-risk, and
@DrTechlash @BostonGlobe This title implies an insult. As if you can only be either an evangelical or a computer scientist. Of course, there are many who are both.
@DrTechlash @BostonGlobe it's fun how these guys have so many important things to do and yet can appear on so much media. here in german sunday-tv for grandmas. I guess their real business is fear and their investments....
@DrTechlash @BostonGlobe These fantasies are the strength of our species, combined with the fierce debates around them. Some fantasies come true but luckily most doesn’t.