38.6 - Joel Lehman on Positive Visions of AI
AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast · Daniel Filan
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Show Notes
Typically this podcast talks about how to avert destruction from AI. But what would it take to ensure AI promotes human flourishing as well as it can? Is alignment to individuals enough, and if not, where do we go form here? In this episode, I talk with Joel Lehman about these questions.
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Transcript: https://axrp.net/episode/2025/01/24/episode-38_6-joel-lehman-positive-visions-of-ai.html
FAR.AI: https://far.ai/
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The Alignment Workshop: https://www.alignment-workshop.com/
Topics we discuss, and timestamps:
01:12 - Why aligned AI might not be enough
04:05 - Positive visions of AI
08:27 - Improving recommendation systems
Links:
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objective/dp/3319155237
We Need Positive Visions of AI Grounded in Wellbeing: https://thegradientpub.substack.com/p/beneficial-ai-wellbeing-lehman-ngo
Machine Love: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09248
AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17713
Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com