we're writing a book
How can we live well
with AI?
First, we need to figure out how to think about values more carefully.
It's not about getting the most value out of life.
It's about understanding how to fit our conflicting values together.
But Big Tech understands value in optimization-obsessed, profit-driven terms.
And the dangers of optimizing include: narrowing our focus, distorting our reasoning,
and causing us to lose track of what we actually care about.​
We need to develop a democracy-driven alternative that considers
what kinds of people we want to be and how we want to live together in society.
We need to practice AI virtue ethics.
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The working title is Living Well with AI.
We'd love to get your feedback on an early copy!
Online Reading Group: Superintelligence
Bostrom's 2014 Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a hugely influential text that raises genuinely important concerns about AI. However, its underlying ethical framework has proved extremely controversial.
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We're excited to explore this classic together, and we'd love to have you in our online reading group this summer!
