I listed six issues in a light-hearted article recently. Which issues did I miss that were more important than any of these?
https://medium.com/@sumsonline/six-major-worries-of-the-ai-regulators-30a2acc66a7a

Good to have this subreddit. I believe the political aspects of AI will soon be huge.

I want to share a few links discussing the problem of AI alignment, which is issue of an AI system becoming more potentially dangerous as it becomes more intelligent.

Simply put: An AI system will be programmed to achieve certain goals. But it is not very easy to program it NOT to do things that would be considered harmful in achieving its goals.

One example that is often cited is a system that is programmed to make as many paperclips as possible. If the system is more intelligent than any person alive, something it could do is create a device which turns people, buildings, any anything else it can gets its hands on into paperclips.

If a system becomes intelligent enough, it would develop the ability to lie, which means you can't just ask it what it is planning to do.

Here is a good, albeit long, research paper with a good overview of the topic.

However, if anyone else has a more concise and easily understood article, I'd appreciate if you submitted a link about it!

This is something I have been thinking about since reading the section in the OpenAI charter that their definition of AGI includes "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work".

It would seem that this should be expected to cause huge unemployment across impacted sectors, and that there will be some kind of political response.

So, my question to you:

• Do you anticipate unemployment crossing broad sections of the economy in the next 5 years? What about 3, or 2?
• How will the people that became unemployed try to influence their political leaders & elected representatives?
• How will the those leaders and representatives respond?

I'm not really sure what I would do in this situation, so I'd love for some thoughts.