Reflections on AI Wisdom, plus announcing Wise AI Wednesdays

By Chris Leong @ 2025-06-05T12:16 (+11)

I recently finished leading an AI Safety Camp project on Wise AI Advisors[1] (my team included Chris Cooper, Matt Hampton, and Richard Kroon). Since we want to share our work in an orderly fashion, I’m launching Wise AI Wednesdays. Each Wednesday[2], I (or one of my teammates) will be sharing a post, initially drawn from our AI Safety Camp outputs, but later including shifting to include future work and outputs summaries or commentary on related research. I’m hoping that a regular posting schedule will help cultivate Wise AI/Wise AI Advisors as a subfield of AI Safety.

This inaugural post provides an update on how my views on AI and wisdom have changed since I won 3rd prize in the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy Competition. My views have evolved considerably since then, so I thought it was worth listing a number of updates I've made:

Thanks for reading and see you next Wednesday!

(PS. if you have a draft post that you'd like to be shared as part of our posting schedule, feel free to reach out).

Previous posts:

  1. ^

    Originally Wise AI Advisors via Imitation Learning. As I say further down, I pivoted towards “let a thousand flowers bloom” rather than one particular approach.

  2. ^

    It is still Wednesday for US night owls.

  3. ^

    That said, it might be worthwhile doing some more objective research earlier on if the acquisition cost of knowledge is low enough or if you’re worried that once schools of thought form, people won’t update on empirical evidence.