Into AI Safety

Join me for round 2 with Dr. Peter Park, an AI Existential Safety Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Max Tegmark at MIT. Dr. Park was a cofounder of StakeOut.AI, a non-profit focused on making AI go well for humans, along with Harry Luk and one other individual, whose name has been removed due to requirements of her current position. In addition to the normal links, I wanted to include the links to the petitions that Dr. Park mentions during the podcast. Note that the nonprofit which began these petitions, StakeOut.AI, has been dissolved. Right AI Laws, to Right Our Future: Support Artificial Intelligence Safety Regulations Now Is Deepfake Illegal? Not Yet! Ban Deepfakes to Protect Your Family & Demand Deepfake Laws Ban Superintelligence: Stop AI-Driven Human Extinction Risk 00:00:54 - Intro 00:02:34 - Battleground 1: Copyright 00:06:28 - Battleground 2: Moral Critique of AI Collaborationists 00:08:15 - Rich Sutton 00:20:41 - OpenAI Drama 00:34:28 - Battleground 3: Contract Negotiations for AI Ban Clauses 00:37:57 - Tesla, Autopilot, and FSD 00:40:02 - Recycling 00:47:40 - Battleground 4: New Laws and Policies 00:50:00 - Battleground 5: Whistleblower Protections 00:53:07 - Whistleblowing on Microsoft 00:54:43 - Andrej Karpathy & Exercises in Empathy 01:05:57 - Outro Links to all articles/papers which are mentioned throughout the episode can be found below, in order of their appearance. StakeOut.AI The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work Susman Godfrey LLP Rich SuttonReinforcement Learning: An Introduction (textbook) AI Succession (presentation by Rich Sutton) The Alberta Plan for AI Research Moore's LawThe Future of Integrated Electronics (original paper) Computer History Museum's entry on Moore's Law Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) on Wikipedia OpenAI DramaMax Read's Substack post Zvi Mowshowitz's Substack series, in order of postingOpenAI: Facts from a Weekend OpenAI: The Battle of the Board OpenAI: Altman Returns OpenAI: Leaks Confirm the Story ← best singular post in the series OpenAI: The Board Expands Official OpenAI announcement WGA on Wikipedia SAG-AFTRA on Wikipedia Tesla's False AdvertisingTesla's response to the DMV's false-advertising allegations: What took so long? Tesla Tells California DMV that FSD Is Not Capable of Autonomous Driving What to Call Full Self-Driving When It Isn't Full Self-Driving? Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube Tesla's page on Autopilot and Full Self-Driving RecyclingBoulder County Recycling Center Stockpiles Accurately Sorted Recyclable Materials Out of sight, out of mind Boulder Eco-Cycle Recycling Guidelines Divide-and-Conquer Dynamics in AI-Driven Disempowerment Microsoft WhistleblowerWhistleblowers call out AI's flaws Shane's LinkedIn postLetters sent by Jones Karpathy announces departure from OpenAI