finding myself using the phrase "robot armies" a lot lately, almost as a tic. cuts through a lot of the bullshit about x-risk. "what's your plan to address AI risk" is easy to weasel from. "what are you gonna do about the robot armies" less so
AI researcher Ivan Vendrov argues framing existential threat as "robot armies" rather than "x-risk" forces more direct accountability
Evaluation group METR is not prioritizing autonomous system risks
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I don't want more AI fear in the world, but for me at least the phrase gives a sense of concreteness to what can otherwise be a vague dread.
there's a lot of armies in the world, they're terrifying, some of them are already mostly robots, more of them will be very shortly
finding myself using the phrase "robot armies" a lot lately, almost as a tic. cuts through a lot of the bullshit about x-risk. "what's your plan to address AI risk" is easy to weasel from. "what are you gonna do about the robot armies" less so
@IvanVendrov METR genuinely thinks about this, although I don’t think we’ll prioritize it rn
who is making the Institute for the Alignment of Robot Armies?
(or is that just the National Security Council)
who is making the Institute for the Alignment of Robot Armies?
(or is that just the National Security Council)
finding myself using the phrase "robot armies" a lot lately, almost as a tic. cuts through a lot of the bullshit about x-risk. "what's your plan to address AI risk" is easy to weasel from. "what are you gonna do about the robot armies" less so