It has been 14 years since my first weblog put up: What’s a Provide-Aspect Liberal? I’ve written an anniversary put up yearly since:
My running a blog continues at a slower tempo; along with my extra instant duties as a professor, husband, father and grandfather, a key a part of my analysis has heated up: my work with Dan Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Kristen Cooper, Jiannan Zhou, Tushar Kundu and Hannah Solheim towards growing the rules for nationwide well-being indexes that may stand as coequals with GDP and thereby assist create a world the place what issues most to individuals issues most to rulers.
Increasingly, I’m wondering if the rulers “making a world the place issues most to individuals issues most to rulers” refers to will probably be synthetic intelligences. In that case, growing complete measures of well-being will probably be a key a part of AI alignment: it’s not sufficient to make AIs care about human welfare. Additionally they must have a really subtle, complete and open-ended idea of human welfare, lest they foster sure human values whereas crushing others. Jack Williamson’s traditional science fiction story “With Folded Arms”—which he later expanded into the novel The Humanoids—is a warning about this. He tells the story of a future the place the robots advance human security on the expense of many different human values.
Like many others, I’ve been fascinated about AI quite a bit up to now yr. I’ve avidly learn information and commentary about AI. I’ve apprehensive about unaligned AI. I’ve made certain I used to be invested closely within the inventory market on the view that AI will carry the financial system as a complete, however for large-cap have invested in an equally-weighted fund, which has no theoretical attraction for me, however is solely a technique to guess on AI whereas additionally betting that the Magnificent Seven (Nvidia, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Meta) don’t have adequate moats to keep away from going through fierce competitors sooner or later, in order that their valuations will leak out to different corporations, deflating them in relative phrases. I’ve used AI for the primary time to assist write exams (particularly the false solutions in a number of selection exams). I’ve used songs I created with the assistance of Suno AI to assist college students bear in mind key concepts in my Intermediate Macroeconomics class. I’ve used ChatGPT as a tutor to assist me study three-dimensional and higher-dimensional geometry. And I’ve experimented with utilizing AI for weblog posts. I do know I haven’t gotten issues down but. I’ve tried to characterize attention-grabbing dialogues I’ve had with ChatGPT, however ChatGPT is of course fairly long-winded. Nonetheless, listed below are the posts I’ve executed within the final yr utilizing ChatGPT—most of them based mostly on dialogues I had with ChatGPT merely out of curiosity that I then copy-pasted: