Risks from advanced AI (June 2022)

Abstract

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford HAI and CISAC. I recently gave a HAI Seminar Zoom talk, in which I lay out some of the basic arguments for existential risk from AI during the first 23m of the talk, after which I describe my research interviewing AI researchers and answer Q&A.I recommend the first 23m as a resource to send to people who are new to these arguments (the talk was aimed at computer science researchers, but is also accessible to the public). This is a pretty detailed, current as of June 2022, public-facing overview that’s updated with April-May 2022 papers, and includes readings, funding, additional resources at the bottom of the page. Also, if you want to give your own version of the talk, please be my guest! No attribution necessary for the first 23m (I would like attribution for the “interviews” part of the talk).