In June, I did a podcast with my friend Kanjun and Josh from Generally
Intelligent [https://generallyintelligent.ai/]. I forgot to fit the announcement
into the blog schedule, so now here it is
Earlier this year, my research group commissioned 6 questions
[https://prod.hypermind.com/ngdp/en/showcase2/showcase.html?sc=JSAI] for
professional forecasters to predict about AI. Broadly speaking, 2 were on
geopolitical
Polarization caused by social media is seen by many as an important societal
problem, which also overlaps [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10939.pdf] with AI
alignment [https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/
There is a growing fear that algorithmic recommender systems, such as Facebook,
Youtube, Netflix, and Amazon, are having negative effects on society, for
instance by manipulating users into behaviors that they wouldn’t
Research ability, like most tasks, is a trainable skill. However, while PhD
students and other researchers spend a lot of time doing research, we often
don't spend enough time training our