For those who want a high-level, non-technical overview of the arguments supporting caution regarding advanced AI systems.

Blogs, YouTube

• Planned Obsolescence, a blog by Ajeya Cotra (Open Philanthropy) and Kelsey Piper (Vox)

• Cold Takes, a blog by Holden Karnofsky (CEO of Open Philanthropy). Some excellent posts include:

  • AI Could Defeat all of us Combined

  • Why Would AI “Aim” to Defeat Humanity?

  • How We Could Stumble into AI Catastrophe

  • AI Safety Seems Hard to Measure

  • High-Level Hopes for AI Alignment

  • What Does Bing Chat tell us about AI risk?

• Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk? by Carlsmith

• Robert Miles, an AI Safety YouTuber

AI Safety in the News

• A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Experts Warn (Kevin Roose, New York Times)

• Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build (Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review)

• The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them (Niall Ferguson, Bloomberg)