A critical dictionary of loaded AI language: what each term claims, where it comes from, and where it shows up in documents we've annotated.
There is no consensus on the definition of AGI, though OpenAI defines it as AI that outperforms humans at all economically valuable tasks. Often referred to interchangeably with 'superintelligence,' this term is used ...
20 usages across annotated documentsAn emerging field of research and community dedicated to preventing what they see as AGI's existential threat to human life. Largely computational in focus, the research from this field is often not peer-reviewed or r...
3 usages across annotated documentsWithin AI safety, alignment is often used to describe technical means of making models abide by human values. Yet most alignment research does not address what those values are or how they are captured, instead treati...
3 usages across annotated documentsAs large language models such as those underpinning ChatGPT were scaled up, they developed capabilities their creators did not anticipate such as the ability to do arithmetic. 'Emergent capabilities' thus became a ter...
1 usage across annotated documentsA phrase derived from long-termism, existential risk refers to threats to human life that would kill the vast majority of the population and leave limited or no prospects of repopulation. Sometimes referred to as exti...
4 usages across annotated documentsEA and related communities often appeal to notions of 'human flourishing' and the 'benefit of humanity' while espousing views that are markedly anti-human. By referring to 'humanity' en masse, they smooth over the soc...
11 usages across annotated documentsRefers to the thought experiment of an AI system that becomes so rife with capabilities, even if a human being hit the off switch, the system would switch itself back on and potentially wreak havoc if it is 'misaligned.'
2 usages across annotated documentsA subfield helmed by podcaster and provocateur Tyler Cowen, closely affiliated with the EA and AI safety movements. Cowen argued that the United States in particular needs a 'science of progress,' pointing to its decl...
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