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Summary * Future artificial agents might resist shutdown. * I present an idea – the POST-Agents Proposal – for ensuring that doesn’t happen. * I p…

Many fear that future artificial agents will resist shutdown. I present an idea – the POST-Agents Proposal – for ensuring that doesn’t happen. I propose that we train agents to satisfy Preferences Onl...

I attended a talk today at the SASH (Singapore AI Safety Hub). The speaker today was Elliott Thornley who is a Research Fellow at Oxford University. Introduction As artificial intelligence advances, w...

Critical-set views avoid the Repugnant Conclusion by subtracting some constant from the welfare score of each life in a population. These views are thus sensitive to facts about biographical identi...

The central focus of GPI is what we call ‘global priorities research’: research into issues that arise in response to the question, ‘What should we do with a given amount of limited resources if our a...

Preamble This post is an updated explanation of the Incomplete Preferences Proposal (IPP): my proposed solution to the shutdown problem. The post is…

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