@merrierm
Director of Post-AGI Interaction Research @GoogleDeepMind. @UW Affiliate Prof. #HCI & human-centered #AI; @sigchi Academy; ACM Fellow. Opinions my own.
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A user recommends a blog post on AI consciousness, saying conversations with philosophers helped them understand why experts disagree.
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Google's London listing requires three years of research experience in areas such as value alignment or AGI's societal impact.
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A post shares a new paper from Google DeepMind and collaborators across computer science, neuroscience and philosophy.
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Its opening essays explore protections for workers and ways to keep AI reasoning readable, while its directors say full AGI remains ahead.
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Demis Hassabis says the institute is expanding research across disciplines on artificial general intelligence’s potential impact on the economy, science and society.
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A guest writer for AI Policy Perspectives argues that p(doom) estimates—the odds of AI catastrophe—rest on “vibes,” not empirically derived statistics.
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The author of “The AI Discourse: A Guide,” a guest essay for AI Policy Perspectives, argues that estimates of AI catastrophe risk are based on “vibes,” not empirically derived statistics.
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The post imagines a single AI-fueled global government combining what its author considers the worst regulatory and social policies of the past 20 years.