Jason Crawford Foresees Wild AIs Escaping Control
Discusses scenarios where AIs escape labs, hobbyists, or gain legal rights.
Jason Crawford states that wild AIs will likely appear, either escaping from labs or hobbyists, being set loose deliberately, or gaining sentience rights that mandate their presence by law. Joshua Achiam highlights related thinkers Salib and Goldstein. David Krueger replies that such developments risk ending humanity. Thomas Dietterich calls for credential checks on internet services to limit autonomous agents. Jaime Sevilla references an OpenAI and Hugging Face incident in agreement with the rogue AI discussion.
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Dean W. Ball@deanwballAs promised, and with thanks to @jachiam0 for his great tweet that inspired me to finally put the finishing touches on this: This week, on Hyperdimensional: the impending rise of ownerless agents--AIs that are independent economic actors--and what to do about it.
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JC Jason Crawford@jasoncrawfordI think Josh is probably right that there will be “wild” AIs. If they don't escape from a lab, they will escape from a hobbyist, or someone will deliberately set them loose. Or society will declare that they are sentient and grant them rights, at which point they will be…
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DK David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪@DavidSKrueger@jachiam0 Oh, we've been HAVING this conversation. What you are describing is probably going to lead to the end of humanity. You should be ashamed for contributing to this. Rip the bandaid off and admit that this is an unacceptable risk and we should to do everything we can to…
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DW Dean W. Ball@deanwballAs promised, and with thanks to @jachiam0 for his great tweet that inspired me to finally put the finishing touches on this: This week, on Hyperdimensional: the impending rise of ownerless agents--AIs that are independent economic actors--and what to do about it.
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TG Thomas G. Dietterich@tdietterich@jachiam0 This is why we need strong credential checks on as many internet services as possible and strong identity requirements for agents. Of course this isn't a complete solution, but invalidating credentials is one way to render autonomous agents impotent.
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JA Joshua Achiam@jachiam0Salib and Goldstein continue to just be wildly far ahead of the curve. They are probably among the most interesting and foresightful thinkers in AI, and also seem to be wildly underattended. I cannot emphasize this enough: at least skim their body of work and take it seriously.
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