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That's not what people mean by AI safety - they're referring to the dangers of uncontrollable or runaway AI. Particularly AGI.


it's a Motte-and-bailey situation [1]. In theory AI-Safety is about X-Risks. In practice it's about making AI compliant, non-racist, non-aggressiv etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy


scott alexander has a nice post about the intersection of these two types of ai safety https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/perhaps-it-is-a-bad-thing-t...




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