Eric Drexler

Jul 10, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Eric Drexler |Roman Leventov |Matt Goldenberg |Justin Bullock

BackgroundIn January 2019, FHI published Reframing Superintelligence, a book-length technical report on prospects for advanced AI. OpenAI published the first paper on GPT-2 a month later. Advances since then have been strange and rapid, and I’d like to revisit the report in light of what we have learned.

Feb 22, 2023 | alignmentforum.org | Eric Drexler

Notes on AI for complex, consequential problemsEric DrexlerCentre for the Governance of AIUniversity of OxfordIntroductionThis document argues for “open agencies” — not opaque, unitary agents — as the appropriate model for applying future AI capabilities to consequential tasks that call for combining human guidance with delegation of planning and implementation to AI systems.