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Victoria Krakovna–AGI Ruin, Sharp Left Turn, Paradigms of AI Alignment

Victoria Krakovna is a Research Scientist at DeepMind working on AGI safety and a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, a non-profit organization working to mitigate technological risks to humanity and increase the chances of a positive future. In this interview we discuss three of her recent LW posts, namely DeepMind Alignment Team Opinions On AGI Ruin Arguments, Refining The Sharp Left Turn Threat Model and Paradigms of AI Alignment.

Transcript & Audio: https://theinsideview.ai/victoria.

Host: https://twitter.com/MichaelTrazzi.
Victoria: https://twitter.com/vkrakovna.

DeepMind Alignment Team On AGI Ruin arguments: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qJgz2YapqpFEDTLKn/deepmind-a…-arguments.
Refining the Sharp Left Turn Threat Model: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/usKXS5jGDzjwqv3FJ/refining-t…claims-and.
Paradigms of AI Alignment: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JC7aJZjt2WvxxffGz/paradigms-…d-enablers.

This conversation presents Victoria’s personal views and does not represent the views of DeepMind as a whole.

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Deadly snakes pictured fleeing flooded dens: “They are fantastic swimmers”

What do snakes do when their burrows are inundated with flood water? The same thing as humans—they move.

Snakes in California have been seen swimming through the state’s flooded streets, but that’s nothing compared to South Australia.

The flooding of the Murray River in Australia has closed off roads, inundated homes and cut off communities across the country. It has also displaced local wildlife from their homes, resulting in an increase in snake encounters across the country.

Scientists Just Reprogrammed Mice to Live Longer. Humans May Be Next

In the Rejuvenate Bio effort—the company published a paper that hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed and was noted for a lack of documentation on which cells were changed—the mice given the treatment were equivalent to a 77-year-old human (about 124 weeks old in mice years). The treated mice lived an extra 9 weeks, on average, beyond the control mice—good for a 7 percent increase in life. The experiment also produced a near-immediate effect.

“This is a powerful technology, and here is the proof of concept,” Noah Davidohn, chief scientific officer of Rejuvenate, told MIT Technology Review. “I wanted to show that it’s actually something we can do in our elderly population.”

Gene reprogramming is still a nascent—and divisive—field. Early research was, of course, limited to single cells. And mice have far fewer cells than a human. Expanding the concept to a human—with the upside of a 7 percent increase in life expectancy as our initial benchmark, no less—brings with it scale that increases risk.