AI risk & opportunity: Questions we want answered

Abstract

This article presents a comprehensive list of critical, strategic questions concerning artificial intelligence (AI) risk and opportunity, and strongly encourages open discussion and further research into these areas. Topical questions include how we can reduce the risk of an AI arms race, attract more funding for x-risk reduction, or ensure a Friendly AI development team maintains altruistic intentions. Other significant areas of concern broached pertain to the development of microeconomic models of Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) and self-improving systems, and questions of how to foresee and guide technological development. The article concludes by requesting the readers to identify the most crucial low-hanging questions for strategic analysis, emphasizing that this effort is the starting point for a continued discourse towards strategic decision-making in the field of AI risk and opportunity. – AI-generated abstract.