discussion w/ new members

New members

  • We spent some time introducing ourselves to the new members and letting the new members introduce themselves to us.
  • We talked to each other about the basic argument of AI alignment and why it’s important
  • We watched Robert Miles’ “Intro to AI Safety, Remastered” and “10 Reasons to Ignore AI Safety”

x-risk Debate

  • We debated with each other on whether the most important problems of AI Safety is short-medium-term (economic, sociopolitical) or long-term (irreversible turning point in human history), whether that problem would be infrastructural or existential.
  • In the end we found agreement in the fact that working on AI Safety is an important endeavor, whether or not AI risk is existential.

Scalable oversight

  • We watched Robert Miles’ “Iterated amplification and distillation” and read through week 4 of the AI safety fundamentals course