Roko on AI risk – Marginal REVOLUTION

Claim: Mindspace is vast, so it’s likely that AIs will be completely alien to us, and therefore dangerous!

Truth: Mindspace is vast, but we picked LLMs as the first viable AI paradigm because the abundance of human-generated data made LLMs the easiest choice. LLMs are models of human language, so they are actually not that alien.
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