The Don’t Panic About AI Collection

It’s hard to take a look at any of the corners of the blogosphere that I frequent without being bombarded with posts urging us to completely lose our shit over AI.

It’s a complex issue on which I don’t want to fire off a casual post, so I’m not doing that right now. When I get around to putting my thoughts down in detail, I’ll explain why I don’t think we should be panicking about AI, why some research into AI alignment is probably worthwhile but why we definitely should not attempt to stop or slow down AI research.

For now, in case you haven’t had enough of the topic, here are some essays I recommend:

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7064

A Warning About AI from 1863 (!)

Kelly Bets On Civilization

✋ The risk of slowing down AI progress

The Doomsday Cults

How Much Should You Freak out About AI?

AI Risk, Again

Extropia's Children, Chapter 7

https://reason.com/2007/09/11/will-super-smart-artificial-in/

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/?commentId=9ZhXbv8p2fr8mkXaa

Why I Am Not (As Much Of) A Doomer (As Some People)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/10/06/241837/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions/

Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case

William Eden @WilliamAEden

My Twitter timeline is full of panicked takes about imminent AI apocalypse and certain doom. I think this is starting to get overplayed, and so I want to make a long thread about why I'm personally not worried yet. Get ready for a big one... 1/n

https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2023/03/09/coherence.html