Top-level takeaway of tonight's catch-up reading on ML...
I still find it hard to take AI Risk seriously as a special problem here. There are definite risks but they don't seem qualitatively different from other kinds of engineering risk.
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I think one should also consider the grey goo scenarios of AI risk.
E.g. personally targeted advertising (weak AI) convinces people to vote badly (scaled social engineering)
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Exactly, would probably be detected and contained before having existential effects.
I feel safe now.

