[LINK] Catastrophic Risks in Artificial Intelligence

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from the Australian National University Colloquium on 
Artificial Intelligence and Catastrophic Risk.

Normally I attend weekly AI, ML and Friends Seminars in the ANU School 
of Computing, but today I am in the social sciences building, with 
philosophers. The colloquium is by the ANU Machine Intelligence and 
Normative Theory Lab. In the first presentation by Professor Seth Lazar 
points out that "transformer based" generative AI is less brittle: much 
harder to get it to produce weird results. At question time I asked 
Professor Lazar what advice he would give the federal government, which 
has announced a trial of Microsoft Copilot in 50 government agencies. He 
suggested a Chief AI Officer in an AI Agency to oversee this. Also he 
suggested funding an AI Safety Institute. He hoped that Copilot would 
just be used for wording letters.

More and links: 
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2024/03/catastrophic-risk-of-artificial.html



-- 
Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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