AI Impacts

Max Noichl 1 This was a prize-winning entry into the Essay Competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy. Summary In this essay I will suggest a lower bound for the impact that artificia...

http://aiimpacts.org/the-purpose-of-philosophical-ai-will-be-to-orient-ourselves-in-thinking/

By Jacob Sparks This was a prize-winning entry into the Essay Competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy. §1 Good AGI The explicit goal of most major AI labs is to create artificial ...

http://aiimpacts.org/machines-and-moral-judgment/

By Thane Ruthenis This was a prize-winning entry into the Essay Competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy. Summary Philosophy and wisdom, and the processes underlying them, currently...

http://aiimpacts.org/towards-the-operationalization-of-philosophy-wisdom/

By Chris Leong This was a prize-winning entry into the Essay Competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy. Notes

http://aiimpacts.org/some-preliminary-notes-on-the-promise-of-a-wisdom-explosion/

By Chris Leong This was a prize-winning entry into the Essay Competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy. I consider four different “obvious” high-level approaches to training wise...

http://aiimpacts.org/an-overview-of-obvious-approaches-to-training-wise-ai-advisors/

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The history of geoengineering, nuclear power, and human challenge trials suggest that social norms and regulation exert powerful forces on the use of technology.

http://aiimpacts.org/what-weve-learned-so-far-from-our-technological-temptations-project/

Chaos theory allows us to rigorously show that there are ceilings on our abilities to make some prediction. This post introduces an investigation which explores the relationship between chaos and...

http://aiimpacts.org/superintelligence-is-not-omniscience/

A redefinition of the second is a foolproof way to increase the number of years between nearly any two events.

http://aiimpacts.org/a-policy-guaranteed-to-increase-ai-timelines/

The uncertainty in the location of the pinball grows by a factor of about 5 every time the ball collides with one of the disks. After 12 bounces, an initial uncertainty in position the size of an...

http://aiimpacts.org/you-cant-predict-a-game-of-pinball/