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Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy — $25k in prizes
We’re pleased to announce an essay competition on the automation of wisdom and philosophy. Submissions are due by July 14th. The first prize is $10,000…
Apr 15
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March 2024
Historical Note: Was a Subway in New York City Inevitable?
The first serious attempt at building a subway in New York City occurred in 1866. The following decades saw a sequence of 15 failed attempts, and the…
Mar 30
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Jeffrey Heninger
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January 2024
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is the Same Scale as OpenAI
Artificial intelligence is not the only exciting emerging technology. Another one that I am personally familiar with is fusion. It seems interesting to…
Jan 12
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Jeffrey Heninger
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Survey of 2,778 AI authors: six parts in pictures
The 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI is out, this time with 2778 participants from six top AI venues (up from about 700 and two in the 2022 ESPAI…
Jan 4
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Katja Grace
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December 2023
When scientists consider whether their research will end the world
Five examples and what we can take away from them
Dec 19, 2023
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Harlan Stewart
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Are There Examples of Overhang for Other Technologies?
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Dec 13, 2023
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Jeffrey Heninger
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November 2023
AI Impacts Quarterlyish Newsletter, Jul-Oct 2023
Every quarter, we have a newsletter with updates on what’s happening at AI Impacts, with an emphasis on what we’ve been working on. You can see past…
Nov 15, 2023
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Harlan Stewart
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New report: A review of the empirical evidence for existential risk from AI via misaligned power-seeking
Visiting researcher Rose Hadshar recently published a review of some evidence for existential risk from AI, focused on empirical evidence for…
Nov 6, 2023
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Harlan Stewart
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October 2023
Muddling Along Is More Likely Than Dystopia
Summary: There are historical precedents where bans or crushing regulations stop the progress of technology in one industry, while progress in the rest…
Oct 20, 2023
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Jeffrey Heninger
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A mapping of claims about AI risk
Many people have argued that AI poses an existential risk, using lots of different terms. This spreadsheet maps some of these claims to one another…
Oct 18, 2023
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Rose Hadshar
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September 2023
My Current Thoughts on the AI Strategic Landscape
I started working at AI Impacts slightly less than a year ago. Before then, I was not following developments in either AI or AI safety. I do not…
Sep 28, 2023
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Jeffrey Heninger
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US public opinion on AI, September 2023
I am aware of some 28 high-quality public surveys on AI this year so far. I collected them in this wiki page. Claims are mostly not justified here; the…
Sep 18, 2023
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Zach Stein-Perlman
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