AI Governance

A complex topic, simply explained

✨ State of AI

  • ChatGPT
  • Diffusion Model

ChatGPT

Language models are getting really good..

Diffusion Models

“Rick Astley in a hawaiian shirt in Jerusalem”

To be fair, that was not cherry picked.

😨 Risks of AI

  • Arms Races: Slaughterbots
  • Mind Crime: Kara
  • Existential: Paperclip Maximizer
  • Evil AI: ChatGPT

Slaughterbots: The Theory

Slaughterbots: The Reality

Kara

Paperclip Maximizer

when the optimization function = max(📎)

the AI will eventually destroy → 🌎

more on this later…

ChatGPT

OpenAI spent a ton of effort to lobotomize ChatGPT from all evil thoughts. And yet…

Facets of AI Governance

  • 🏢 Organizational
  • 🇺🇸 National
  • 🌐 Global
  • 💀 Existential

🏢 Organizational

  • MLOps
  • Fairness
  • Adversarial Defense

MLOps

A set of procedures and enabling systems for deploying machine learning models reliably and efficiently. Can be automated…

Fairness

Procedures, science, and enabling systems for preventing AI models from discrimination based on protected classes.

Adversarial Defense

Protecting AI models from intentional attacks intended to degrade their performance.

🇺🇸 National

  • Races
  • Policy

Races

Two nations develop AI capacity in a national competitive race

The big one:

🇨🇳 vs 🇺🇸

Policy

Can national policy affect change?

🌐 Global

  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Future of Work

💀 Existential

  • AI Alignment
  • Instrumental Goals
  • The 📎 Maximizer (Again)
  • Mind Crimes
  • Intelligence Explosion
  • Decisive Strategic Advantage

Padded room

Math lady meme

Instrumental Goals

🎺 🥅 are goals that lead to end goals

Remember the paperclip maximizer

when max(📎) →

📎 > 👪

📎 > 🌎

it’s the 🎺 🥅 that get you

Mind Crimes

when 🤖 has 🧠

one can commit crimes against 🤖

Intelligence Explosion

🤖 🦾 self-improving itself

leads to even greater 🧠

🤖 🦾 self-improving itself even faster 🦾 🦾 🦾

and on and on

hence an intelligence 💣💥

Decisive Strategic Advantage

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