New blog: Planned Obsolescence

By Ajeya, Kelsey Piper @ 2023-03-27T19:46 (+198)

This is a linkpost to https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/

We (Kelsey and Ajeya) just launched a new blog about AI futurism and AI alignment called Planned Obsolescence. If you’re interested, you can check it out here. 

Both of us have thought a fair bit about what we see as the biggest challenges in technical work and in policy to make AI go well, but a lot of our thinking isn’t written up, or is embedded in long technical reports. This is an effort to make our thinking more accessible. That means it’s mostly aiming at a broader audience than LessWrong and the EA Forum, although some of you might still find some of the posts interesting.

So far we have seven posts:

• What we're doing here
• "Aligned" shouldn't be a synonym for "good"
• Situational awareness
• Playing the training game
• Training AIs to help us align AIs
• Alignment researchers disagree a lot
• The ethics of AI red-teaming

Thanks to ilzolende for formatting these posts for publication. Each post has an accompanying audio version generated by a voice synthesis model trained on the author's voice using Descript Overdub.

You can submit questions or comments to mailbox@planned-obsolescence.org.