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there is no reason to suppose Homo sapiens to have reached the apex of cognitive effectiveness attainable in a biological system. Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization—a niche we filled because we got th

Nick Bostrom • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

“I actually think that we should be measuring intelligence in terms of how things behave—not in terms of reward function.”

Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem

“The kind of computing these LLMs are doing, this kind of intelligence, is just different. Is that an existential risk? Well, I come back to the fact that we have no idea how the human brain works.” It’s easier to imagine catastrophic things than see the opportunities, he points out.

Intelligence, when we perceive it at play in the world, is not a collection of abstract modes: a concatenation of self-awareness, theory of mind, emotional understanding, creativity, reasoning, problem-solving and planning that we can separate and test for under laboratory conditions. These are simply reductive and all-too-human interpretations of

Nick Bostrom • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem

James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence