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Ryan Kidd

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

But also we had, you know, Nathan Young recently compiled all these different like forecasting platforms.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

So Metaculous, Manifold, another Metaculous poll that was like for weak AGI, it was like a little bit less good at Turing tests and all these other like, I don't know, some Cauchy thing where they're opening, I will achieve it.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

And he came out with an average of 2030.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Now, I don't know, I still like the Metaculous 2033, but like I wouldn't bet against 2030 in terms of nearness of AGI.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

As for superintelligence,

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Complicated, right?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Could be six months or less.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Could be a very hard takeoff after this AGI thing.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

If it's like a very software-only singularity scenario where you don't need a big bunch of hardware, scale up, you aren't limited by compute, it's just recursive self-improvement or something, algorithmic improvement, AIs are improving.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

The algorithms are training eyes, and it's like, well, that's a fast feedback loop, right?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

Or you might need a lot more experimentation, right?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

You might need massive hardware scale-ups.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

You might need just staggeringly more compute than exists in the world, in which case that could take you a decade to get your singularity.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I currently think that 2033 is a decent central estimate in terms of the median for what we're preparing for.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

But obviously, 20% chance by 2028.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

I think that's the meticulous prediction.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

That's a lot, right?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

So we should definitely be considering scenarios that are sooner, right?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

In particular, I think the sooner AGI happens, the more dangerous it might be, right?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)

The less time we have to do critical technical research to prepare, the less time we have to implement policy solutions,