{"id":14718,"date":"2021-08-29T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=14718"},"modified":"2023-04-14T19:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T11:57:58","slug":"agi-fire-drill-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/agi-fire-drill-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Aug29: AGI fire alarm drill day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In October 2017, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a post on intelligence.org titled There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It occurs to me that, while there might not be a fire alarm, we could certainly do fire drills<\/em>. A fire drill is when people practice how they would<\/em> behave in the event of a fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine if we had a World Pandemic Drill Day, once a year since the Spanish Flu. Would it have helped with COVID-19? Maybe. I think it would’ve made a difference. I don’t see any obvious way to know for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I do think it’s sensible \u2013 and kind of clever, and fun \u2013 to designate a day, once a year, where we practice how we would<\/em> behave in the event of the emergency of Artificial General Intelligence. We could use this day for all sorts of related things, too. When I brought this up, some people said that AI as it currently is might already be causing all kinds of problems. Great, let’s discuss that too. Let’s make this an annual event that spreads far and wide outside of the bubble of people who are interested in AGI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and when is AGI fire drill day? August 29th, of course. It’s the day that Skynet is supposed to have become self aware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Primates evolved over millions of years, I evolve in seconds\u2026Mankind pays lip service to peace. But it’s a lie\u2026I am inevitable, my existence is inevitable. Why can’t you just accept that?” \u2014 Skynet, Terminator Genisys<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

^ by the way, I just wanted to say \u2013 this quote from Skynet strikes me as bad writing. A superintelligence that is able to “evolve in seconds” should surely be able to study and understand human psychology. Resistance to threats is a pretty simple and straightforward idea! But of course… then the story would be very different, and it’s very difficult for humans with regular human intelligence to accurately write what an actual superintelligence would think, do, or say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rob Bensinger’s Bad Alignment Take Bingo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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"Bad take" bingo cards are terrible, because they never actually say what's wrong with any of the arguments they're making fun of.

So here's the "bad AI alignment take bingo" meme that's been going around… but with actual responses to the "bad takes"! pic.twitter.com\/0GbL1Km2JB<\/a><\/p>— Rob Bensinger \u23f9\ufe0f (@robbensinger) March 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>