A one-page memo from the Machine Intelligence Research Institute proposing a global agreement to prevent the creation of artificial superintelligence for as long as is desired, allowing existing AIs while banning the development of smarter ones, backed by verification methods so the U.S. and China can coordinate without trusting each other.
A technical overview of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s research agenda and priorities for aligning advanced artificial intelligence systems.
From the site: “Artificial superintelligence” (ASI) refers to AI that can substantially surpass humanity in all strategically relevant activities (economic, scientific,
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Eliezer Yudkowsky's collected essays on reasoning, bias and AI risk, free to read online in full.
From the site: Between 2006 and 2009, senior MIRI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote several hundred essays for the blogs Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, collectively called
Why I recommend it: Long, opinionated and free. Read it for the thinking habits, not as settled fact.