"AI predictions" (Future Fund AI Worldview Prize submission)

By ketanrama, Nick_Beckstead, leopold, ab, William_MacAskill @ 2022-11-05T17:51 (+3)

This is a linkpost to https://medium.com/@shadeshadow201/ai-predictions-57380774c4c0

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Author: Sharan Babu

This article is a submission to the FTX Future Fund AI worldview prize.

Content structure: short-term predictions followed by further-in-the-timeline predictions.

Soon-to-be-true predictions:

In the next 5 years, there will be a huge surge in vertical AI models aimed at a few tasks. It is much easier to vet quality data and periodically refresh model knowledge for a particular domain than the entire Internet. **

  1. Predictions for ‘AGI will be developed by January 1, 2043’

AGI definition: A computer system able to perform any task that a human can.

With the above lines of thought in mind, I would suggest a subjective probability of 80% for AGI being developed by January 1, 2043.

2. Predictions for “P(misalignment x-risk|AGI)”: Conditional on AGI being developed by 2070, humanity will go extinct or drastically curtail its future potential due to loss of control of AGI

Taking all these points into consideration puts my subjective probability for P(misalignment x-risk|AGI) at 0.1–1%

** — Companies that enable this would be great investments for Future Fund.