<aside> 🔍 Transformative artificial intelligence may well be developed this century. If it is, it may begin to make many significant decisions for us, and rapidly accelerate changes like economic growth. Are we set up to deal with this new technology safely?

• Learn about Bayes’ rule, a guide to how to change your beliefs as you get new evidence. </aside>

Required Materials

The case for worrying about risks from artificial intelligence:

• The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity (30 mins.)
• Why AI alignment could be hard (18 mins)
• AI Timelines: Where the arguments and the “Experts,” stand (13 mins.)

Strategies for reducing risks from unaligned artificial intelligence:

• The longtermist AI governance landscape: a basic overview (14 mins.)
• AI Safety researcher career review (10 mins.)
• Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (read the “What you can do concretely to help” section)

Bayes’ rule and evidence:

• Bayes’ rule: Guide (15 mins. for the short version)
• Making beliefs pay rent (5 mins.)
• What is evidence? (4 mins.)

Suffering risks:

• S-risks: Why they are the worst existential risks, and how to prevent them (13 mins.)

More to explore

The development of artificial intelligence

• AlphaGo - The Movie - DeepMind - A documentary exploring what artificial intelligence can reveal about the 3000-year-old game of Go, and what that can teach us about the future potential of artificial intelligence. (Video - 1 hour 30 mins.)
• The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 - A fun and interesting exploration of artificial intelligence by the popular blogger Tim Urban. (45 mins.)