List of AI safety projects I could work on

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(November 2020)

small chunk = I can make useful/meaningful progress within one hour (at the limit, think of things like Duolingo where each task can be accomplished in a few seconds)

big chunk = I cannot make useful/meaningful progress within hour, because it needs more concentrated thinking time

Writing up my opinions

  • writing some sort of overview of my beliefs regarding AI safety. like, if i was explaining things from scratch to someone, what would that sound like? (big chunk)
  • my current take on AI timelines (big chunk)
  • my current take on AI takeoff (big chunk)
  • my current take on MIRI vs Paul (big chunk)

Research projects

  • continue working out AI takeoff disagreements (big chunk)
  • continue working out MIRI vs Paul (big chunk)
  • HRAD paper with David Manheim (big chunk)
  • concrete plausible scenarios for what could happen when AGI comes around (big chunk)
  • deep dive into human evolution to figure out what the heck it might tell us about AI takeoff/AI timelines (big chunk)
  • comparison of AI and nukes (big chunk)
  • think about AI polarization, using examples like COVID and climate change (big chunk)
  • write up my understanding of people's views on whole brain emulation (big chunk)

Technical AI safety

  • I still don't feel motivated to do this since I don't feel convinced by any existing worldview/visualization that has been put forth (by e.g. MIRI or Paul) (big chunk)

AI safety wiki

  • Writing articles for AI safety wiki (big chunk)

The Vipul Strategy

Increase activity on LessWrong

Exposition of technical topics

Personal reflection

  • reflection post about getting involved with AI safety (big chunk)

Philosophy

Learn stuff

  • learn more machine learning so I can better follow some discussions (big chunk)
  • learn more economics. I somewhat often feel confused about how to think about various AI strategy questions (e.g. history of growth, how AI systems might cooperate and increase economies of scale, what percentage of GDP might be used for computing costs) and I suspect part of the reason is that I don't know enough economics. (big chunk)
  • understand the neuromorphic AI pathways that people like Steve Byrnes and gwern have been talking about (small chunk)
  • there are a lot of blog posts that I could catch up on (small chunk)

See also