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The Machine Intelligence Research Institute exists to maximize the probability that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence has a positive impact.
Berkeley, CA
Joined July 2013
”If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” was recently added to the New Yorker's “The Best Books of the Year So Far” list!
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@hankgreen rarely does interviews or 30+ min long videos. His latest video, an hour+ long interview with @So8res about “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,” is a banger. My new favorite!
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“AI does not love you. Neither does it hate you. But you're made of atoms it can use for something else. You're on a planet it can use for something else. And you might not be a direct threat, but you can possibly be a direct inconvenience.” — @ESYudkowsky 🔗
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“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” coauthor @So8res recently chatted with @MajorCBS on @CBSNews. https://t.co/lOqYeAVVf3
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Some people said this was their favorite / first actually-liked interview. By Chris Williamson, of Modern Wisdom.
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Happening tomorrow (Oct 28th) in SF! If you want to come, make sure you get a ticket.
In the Bay Area? Come join @So8res in conversation with @ReedAlbergotti about Nate's NYT bestselling book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.” 🗓️Tuesday Oct 28 @ 7:30pm at Manny’s (@welcometomannys) in SF. More info and tickets 👇
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Great article by @Will4Planet in the FT. While there are lots of disanalogies, I agree. In fact, MIRI's TechGov team wrote a draft treaty, with annotations and precedent sections for each article, that's included in the online resources for “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.”
Nuclear treaties offer a blueprint for how to handle AI https://t.co/aABnXXBd9e | opinion
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In the Bay Area? Come join @So8res in conversation with @ReedAlbergotti about Nate's NYT bestselling book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.” 🗓️Tuesday Oct 28 @ 7:30pm at Manny’s (@welcometomannys) in SF. More info and tickets 👇
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Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow is reading “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.” From an interview in The Guardian by Danny Leigh:
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I was glad to have Nate Soares (@So8res) (co-author of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies") on the podcast. My goal was to get a gears-level understanding of why he believes building unaligned Artificial Superintelligence would cause us all to die (here are the key points): 👇
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“The book uses parables, very well told, to argue that evolutionary processes are not predictable, at least not easily. [...] I came away far more concerned than I had been before opening the book.” “The risk of AI going rogue does seem real. And perhaps that path can be
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Michael talks with Nate @So8res, co-author of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies", on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence. Soares argues that humanity must treat AI risk as seriously as pandemics or nuclear war. Hear the #bookclub #podcast 🎧📖 https://t.co/ybRlPSZmKs
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