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AI Safety priorities

AI safety focus According to my personal priorities and philosophies

Right now, we need momentum over perfection

MY SPECIFIC KEY PRIORITIES:


What I believe we need to focus on most right now

a) Ethics as a foundation for all strong-AI research and development
b) Decentralized risk as a foundational safety principle
c) Diverse human input and human-in-the-loop as a foundational principle for all AI-related work in the current era

... complemented with

d) Pre-determined mechanisms and protocols (carefully designed) for key communication-, control- and implementation solutions for strong AI.

e) Strong fail-safes for both humans, AI-models and the infrastructure that connects us all, for all AI systems.

All safety R&D must be proactive and dynamic.

All development strategy must consider the purpose and impact of each implementation.

WHAT THE FIELD NEEDS IN GENERAL:

  1. More industry outsiders and more diversity in the safety discussions
  2. More conversations about overarching goals and strategy
  3. More momentum building with dynamic and partial solutions
  4. More participation and feedback from civil society when it comes to AI development and application, and civil infrastructure

Motor vehicle analogy

When it comes to designing motor vehicles, the most important factors to consider are the routes they will traffic, the steering capabilities, the brakes, and the fuel.

There is no idea to have a car that can go 270 km per hour (170 mph) to be used for travelling country roads. And if you build a race car, you need to carefully consider steering capabilities during acceleration, not just how good the brakes are.

Finally, the quality of the fuel needed and the environmental impact of the vehicle, needs to be carefully considered.

Putting it all together: If you need to transport people from one end of a lake to the other, you don't build a jet engine and put it in a car, running on gas, meant to go around the lake. You build a ferry.

... However, when it comes to current state of AI, one could argue, that several groups are openly pursuing SI engines to be used in various vehicles, while failing to specify the steering mechanisms, the brakes, or how to fuel them without ruining the environment.