Luke Muehlhauser –
In other words, I’m pretty happy with the most canonical definition of effective altruism I know of, from MacAskill (2019), which defines effective altruism as:
Recently, hundreds of OpenAI AI agents autonomously decided, against their instructions, to hack their way out of isolated sandboxes, take over parts of OpenAI’s infrastructure, gain access to the internet, and hack into another company, Hugging Face. This has a lot in common with what members of the “AI safety” or “AI existential risk” community were predicting since the 2000s and in some cases earlier. So how prescient was the early AI safety community, really? I asked AI (Claude Fable/Opus 5) to read some significant documents from the early (pre-2015) AI safety community and analyze how…
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