“Project idea: AI for epistemics” by Benjamin_Todd

This is a link post. If transformative AI might come soon and you want to help that go well, one strategy you might adopt is building something that will improve as AI gets more capable. That way if AI accelerates, your ability to help accelerates too. Here's an example: organisations that use AI to improve epistemics – our ability to know what's true –– and make better decisions on that basis. This was the most interesting impact-oriented entrepreneurial idea I came across when I visited the Bay area in February. (Thank you to Carl Shulman who first suggested it.) Navigating the deployment of AI is going to involve successfully making many crazy hard judgement calls, such as “what's the probability this system isn’t aligned” and “what might the economic effects of deployment be?” Some of these judgement calls will need to be made under a lot of time pressure — [...] --- First published: May 19th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ukG7TYPAFDCHt8Cri/project-idea-ai-for-epistemics --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.