Anthony Aguirre

If humans want to stay in charge of their own civilization, it will take more than a unilateral temporary pause.

President Trump is exactly right: advanced AI systems need a robust off-switch to ensure humans never lose control over them.

Strengthen and clarify liability laws so that responsibility for actions taken by AI systems rests where it should, which is with users, for systems they meaningfully control, and jointly with developers and deployers, if control is inadequate or abs...

The crucial thing is that there is an external evaluation system that can test, by an independent agency or authority, that an AI system is safe and reliable before it goes to market, just as Max was discussing.

The assurance dilemma has a solution in the form of assurance mechanisms: processes that allow parties to verify compliance with agreements. [...] Nuclear non-proliferation treaties, for example, rely on monitoring uranium supplies and enrichment fac...

Time is running out. [...] The only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want.

We don't have to do this. We have human-competitive AI, and there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete. We can build amazing AI tools without building a successor species. The notion that AGI and superintelligence are inevitable is a cho...