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Eric Zelikman on X: "human-centered AGI" / Twitter

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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Tim Kostolansky @thkostolansky Tweet Reply See new posts Conversation Eric Zelikman @ericzelikman human-centered AGI The people who’ve stood out in my collaborations are not just amazing engineers, but amazing people. Whether naturally or not, they deeply understood and cared about the people they worked with, especially when their collaborators were learning and less experienced. I worry a lot that future AI systems will not be this kind of collaborator. Increasingly the field measures progress in terms of autonomy: how long can a model work alone or with other instances of itself to complete a task. But there’s another axis: how well do they work with us? There are clear downsides to models that don’t understand us. Models optimized for your immediate happiness will tell you whatever you want to hear. You’ll learn less from making things and you’ll understand less about the systems you build. Fundamentally, you’

The people who’ve stood out in my collaborations are not just amazing engineers, but amazing people. Whether naturally or not, they deeply understood and cared about the people they worked with, especially when their collaborators were learning and less experienced. I worry a lot that future AI systems will not be this kind of collaborator. Increasingly the field measures progress in terms of autonomy: how long can a model work alone or with other instances of itself to complete a task. But there’s another axis: how well do they work with us? There are clear downsides to models that don’t…

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