AI Will Not Want to Self-Improve

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Many accounts of risk from Artificial Intelligence (AI), including existential risk, involve self-improvement. The idea is that, if an AI gained the ability to improve itself, it would do so, since improved capabilities are useful for achieving essentially any goal. … Continued

LLM Norms and Review Criteria

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Ryan Watkins recently published a new article on establishing norms and review criteria for the use of Large Language Models in scientific research. You can read it here: https://rdcu.be/dciay Watkins, R. (2023). Guidance for researchers and peer‑reviewers on the ethical … Continued

Can Generative AI Improve Social Science?

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Artificial intelligence that can produce realistic text, images, and other human-like outputs is currently transforming many different industries. Yet it is not yet known how such tools might transform social science research. In the first section of this article, I … Continued

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