We are entering a future with new friends who may challenge us. To help the world, we must consider the future. Can a future with AI be non-zero-sum? Will we be symbiotic or competitive—us or them?
Beyond the well-known "alignment problem" discussed in mainstream debates, there's a less obvious dimension that warrants our attention: humanity isn't aligned.
A second alignment series, prompted by Emmett Shear's idea that humans are natural "alignment generators"—and what that reveals about cooperation's dark side, and the systems we build when we stop paying attention to each other.
Human creativity has always held a semi-magical quality, and yet, recent progress in machine learning has shown that spell-binding music and art turn out to be some the lowest hanging fruit for AI. So, what does the future hold for creativity?
