It has been 14 years since my first weblog publish: What’s a Provide-Aspect Liberal? I’ve written an anniversary publish yearly since:
My running a blog continues at a slower tempo; along with my extra instant duties as a professor, husband, father and grandfather, a key a part of my analysis has heated up: my work with Dan Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Kristen Cooper, Jiannan Zhou, Tushar Kundu and Hannah Solheim towards growing the ideas for nationwide well-being indexes that may stand as coequals with GDP and thereby assist create a world the place what issues most to folks issues most to rulers.
An increasing number of, I ponder if the rulers “making a world the place issues most to folks issues most to rulers” refers to might be synthetic intelligences. In that case, growing complete measures of well-being might be a key a part of AI alignment: it’s not sufficient to make AIs care about human welfare. Additionally they have to have a really subtle, complete and open-ended idea of human welfare, lest they foster sure human values whereas crushing others. Jack Williamson’s basic science fiction story “With Folded Palms”—which he later expanded into the novel The Humanoids—is a warning about this. He tells the story of a future the place the robots advance human security on the expense of many different human values.
Like many others, I’ve been fascinated about AI quite a bit up to now yr. I’ve avidly learn information and commentary about AI. I’ve anxious about unaligned AI. I’ve made positive I used to be invested closely within the inventory market on the view that AI will elevate the economic system as an entire, however for large-cap have invested in an equally-weighted fund, which has no theoretical attraction for me, however is solely a approach to wager on AI whereas additionally betting that the Magnificent Seven (Nvidia, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Meta) don’t have adequate moats to keep away from going through fierce competitors sooner or later, in order that their valuations will leak out to different companies, deflating them in relative phrases. I’ve used AI for the primary time to assist write exams (particularly the false solutions in a number of alternative exams). I’ve used songs I created with the assistance of Suno AI to assist college students keep in mind key concepts in my Intermediate Macroeconomics class. I’ve used ChatGPT as a tutor to assist me find out about three-dimensional and higher-dimensional geometry. And I’ve experimented with utilizing AI for weblog posts. I do know I haven’t gotten issues down but. I’ve tried to signify fascinating dialogues I’ve had with ChatGPT, however ChatGPT is of course fairly long-winded. Nonetheless, listed here are the posts I’ve achieved within the final yr utilizing ChatGPT—most of them based mostly on dialogues I had with ChatGPT merely out of curiosity that I then copy-pasted:
