Anthony Aguirre

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

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. That means building public will and s...

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...