AI safety

This note last modified September 1, 2024

AI can be “unaligned” (it doesn’t do what its creators want) or “misused” (it does what its creators want, and its creators are assholes).

We can also think short term (what systems do we have right now, what harm can they cause / are they causing) and we can think long term (what harm can a genius level AI cause, maybe even one that is smarter than us humans).