David Duvenaud
@DavidDuvenaud
Machine learning prof @UofT. Former team lead at Anthropic. Working on generative models, inference, & latent structure.
We're presenting ICML Position "Humanity Faces Existential Risk from Gradual Disempowerment" : come talk to us today East Exhibition Hall E-503. @DavidDuvenaud @raymondadouglas @AmmannNora @DavidSKrueger Also: meet Mary, protagonist of our poster.
With @luke_drago_, I’m cofounding Workshop Labs, a public benefit corporation preventing human disempowerment from AI. See below for: -impact case -what we’re building -what we hope the future looks like -what we’re hiring for
Announcing Workshop Labs, a public benefit company.
Do you predict that at any point in your life you will prefer an AI boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife to the most suitable human you’re able to find?
I've never heard a parent actually state frankly that AI is likely to replicate spousal / parent-child relationships (i.e. be better than parents/spouses). @DavidDuvenaud talks frankly about the AI future with ZERO cope - which was so refreshing. David is episode 1 in a new…
Recently, there have been various proposals for mitigating problems (including general disempowerment and mass starvation) caused by AGI making human labor ~worthless. I'm somewhat skeptical of these proposals, so I wrote up my guesses at the best interventions.
Most reactions to the impending AI automation of the economy are: (1) denial, or (2) simplistic patches like UBI But the modern social contract is based on states & companies needing human labor. @luke_drago_ and I outline a more robust way forward in a Time op-ed.