Distributional Trust
I've written previously about factors impacting cooperation, especially in the presence of large disagreements. One factor that relates to cooperation that has been on my mind lately is trust. There are
The Floating Droid
Social Firewalls
I'm interested in how people can cooperate despite large disagreements. Part of this is because I believe such cooperation may be necessary for tackling issue in AI safety (e.g. some
A baseline for regulation of ML models
Machine learning researchers and engineers love baselines. Baselines serve as an important starting point to make improvements, and the ability to check new ideas against baselines helps measure and incentivize progress. For hard
I'm more concerned about powerful AI than "intelligent" AI
Whenever the topic of advanced machine learning systems comes up, people seem to inevitably end up discussing whether certain systems are or could be "intelligent" or whether a system is or
"AI": Think The Trial as much as The Terminator
The other day, I was discussing some ideas about machine learning models and how they could be used for certain applications with some friends. For reasons of anonymity I'm going to