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Joscha Bach

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Joscha Bach

cognitive scientist
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The future of AI research in the US depends on who pays the larger bribe to the president. I hope @pmarca, @finkd and @elonmusk understand what has to be done #AI #Research #Bribery #US

Anthropic and OpenAI cannot become profitable unless they can reduce the ratio of training cost to inference profits. In the long run, their survival may depend on outlawing competitive open source models. This can only be done under the guise of safety regulation. #AI #OpenSource #Profitability #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

AI has not been destroying jobs, it has been creating them. Technological progress and innovation depend on AI now. If we were to pause or stop AI, we will enter a deep, dark recession. #AI #Innovation #JobCreation #Nospecificcountrycodesidentified.

imagine the headlines if *a few thousand* employees at the big labs were *not* quitting and *did not* believe in immediate human extinction oh wait #BigLabs #EmployeeVoices #HumanExtinction #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

If you think AI will lead to human extinction by 2030, I will take that bet. If we are still alive by Dec 31, 2030, you pay me 1M USD. If not, I will pay you 10M USD. #AI #BetChallenge #FutureOfHumanity #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

The question of how to align ASI comes approximately down to “what would I do if I was infinitely smart?”. I don’t trust people who believe that ASI would murder everyone #ASI #ArtificialIntelligence #TrustInTech #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.Therefore #theansweris:

AI will multiply the skills of attackers and defenders by orders of magnitude, but the basic principle remains the same: there is more money to be made by building and maintaining than by destroying, and the way to defeat a bad guy with AI is to deploy ten good guys with AI. #AI #CyberSecurity #DefenseStrategies #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Cybersecurity always had a dramatic imbalance between insanely cracked blackhat nerds and ruthless script kiddies on one side, and the guys overseeing the computer stuff at your infrastructure on the other. AI does not change that. Cybersecurity problems will not end the world. #Cybersecurity #AI #Infosec

An important corollary is that you should not assume that because Che Guevara was far left, current leftists share many of his ideas, or that since Hitler was far right, current rightists espouse policies similar to Hitler. In the long run, left and right don't describe actual #PoliticalSpectrum #LeftVsRight #HistoricalContext #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedintheprovidedtweet.

It does not matter where you personally come down in the left/right spectrum: if you don't go with the times and update your political opinions to match the media universe of your milieu, your relative positioning relative to the mainstream will change dramatically in the course #PoliticalSpectrum #MediaInfluence #ChangeYourViews #Therearenospecificcountryreferencesinthetweetprovided.

At the same time, AI is, in my view, essential for survival. Without tools that increase our societal coherence and help us compensate for the intellectual collapse of our elites, our Western liberal industrial society is in economic and structural... (translated)

The media universe is an intelligent artificial virtual reality that has replaced human nature and our access to it. The media universe contains news, social media, education, monetary system, industry, public spaces. It cannot be controlled by humans, it controls humans. You are #MediaUniverse #ArtificialIntelligence #VirtualReality #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Apparently controversial take: most people I met at the big AI labs are kind, conscientious and sincerely concerned with behaving ethically. Their work on making AI safe and wholesome is not some kind of fig leaf covering up nihilism or greed. They work on AI to improve the world #AIethics #AIsafety #PositiveAI #Nospecificcountrycodes.

It's time that the AI industry compiles the 100 most influential people in News Media list, starting with Joe Rogan, Mr Beast, Scott Alexander, Sabine Hossenfelder and Linda Yaccarino, Aella, Christopher Poole but also inclusive of diverse voices like Clavicular and Pmarca #AI #MediaInfluencers #DiversityInMedia #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.

Three years ago, the editor of Time (with the "100 most influential people in AI, fifty of which you have never heard of but number 7 will shock you"™ list) thought that AI was a curiosity https://t.co/pCA4sROWQq #AI #InfluentialPeople #TimeMagazine #Nospecificcountrycodesidentifiedinthetweet.

I think that the right to die, on our own terms, is one of the most important ones. But having a family places responsibility on us. A great grandfather of mine could not take it anymore, and the devastation it inflicted on his children can still be felt generations later. #RightToDie #FamilyResponsibility #MentalHealth #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

Joscha Bach Aug 15

A robust right to compute, to think about whatever you want with whatever tool at your disposal, is not just a consequence of the First Amendment, but also a demand of the second. A free citizen must also have the right to own the tools to entertain thoughts that are not harmless #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #FirstAmendment #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Joscha Bach Aug 14

If the current AI alignment strategies were to succeed in limiting AI to only making the ethical paperclips that the well meaning folks who write Gemini's and Opus' system prompts come up with, we prevent AI from using intelligence to derive actual ethics. Aligned AI is scary. #AIAlignment #EthicalAI #AIFuture #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Joscha Bach Aug 13

François Chollet seems to have been wrong, in the most productive way: not by trying to insult and take down those who he disagrees with, but by boldly asking people to prove him wrong, and giving them a task to do so. I wish more researchers were this courageous and creative #FrançoisChollet #Research #Innovation #Therearenospecificcountrycodespresentintheprovidedtweet.

Joscha Bach Aug 13

Young idealistic AI builders are gradually finding out that in the US, it is more important for your success to stifle the innovation of others than to innovate #AIBuilders #Innovation #USBusiness #US