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2024-02-23

Because everything about Artificial Intelligence is changing so quickly, this document is made of two parts

  1. An up-to-date website
  2. A downloadable and printable book for more timeless information.

The spectacular performance of ChatGPT has made it popular now to talk about “AI safety” and the potential dangers of super-intelligent machines going amok. Progress over the past year has been so rapid that many people are wondering if we should hit the pause button on further research, to give us time to figure out how to prevent these machines from going super-intelligent and potentially leaving us humans behind.

Is this a serious danger? How important is “AI Safety”? These are old questions that have been asked since computers were invented, and long before.