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Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?

Robert Miles AI Safety

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  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

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Robert Miles explains why the analogy of corporations as artificial general superintelligences fails to address the unique safety risks of AGI.

Corporations are kind of like AIs, if you squint. How hard do you have to squint though, and is it worth it? In this video we ask: Are corporations artificial general superintelligences? Related: "What can AGI do? I/O and Speed" (youtu.be/gP4ZNUHdwp8) "Why Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence" (youtu.be/ZeecOKBus3Q) Media Sources: "SpaceX - How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster" (youtu.be/bvim4rsNHkQ) Undertale - Turbosnail Clerks (1994) Zootopia (2016) AlphaGo (2017) Ready Player One (2018) With thanks to my excellent Patreon supporters: patreon.com/robertskmiles Jordan Medina Jason Hise Pablo Eder Scott Worley JJ Hepboin Pedro A Ortega James McCuen Richárd Nagyfi Phil Moyer Alec Johnson Bobby Cold Clemens Arbesser Simon Strandgaard Jonatan R Michael Greve The Guru Of Vision David Tjäder Julius Brash Tom O'Connor Erik de Bruijn Robin Green Laura Olds Jon Halliday Paul Hobbs Jeroen De Dauw Tim Neilson Eric Scammell Igor Keller Ben Glanton Robert Sokolowski Jérôme Frossard Sean Gibat Sylvain Chevalier DGJono robertvanduursen Scott Stevens Dmitri Afanasjev Brian Sandberg Marcel Ward Andrew Weir Ben Archer Scott McCarthy Kabs Kabs Kabs Tendayi Mawushe Jannik Olbrich Anne Kohlbrenner Jussi Männistö Mr Fantastic Wr4thon Dave Tapley Archy de Berker Kevin Marc Pauly Joshua Pratt Gunnar Guðvarðarson Shevis Johnson Andy Kobre Brian Gillespie Martin Wind Peggy Youell Poker Chen Kees Darko Sperac Truls Paul Moffat Anders Öhrt Lupuleasa Ionuț Marco Tiraboschi Michael Kuhinica Fraser Cain Robin Scharf Oren Milman John Rees Shawn Hartsock Seth Brothwell Brian Goodrich Michael S McReynolds Clark Mitchell Kasper Schnack Michael Hunter Klemen Slavic Patrick Henderson patreon.com/robertskmiles

Why it's here

5 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as a clear rebuttal to the argument that corporations are already functioning as superintelligent AIs.

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On “AI thinks like a corporation (2018)”

In which a science fiction writer weaves a fantastical tale about how the Doomsayers are making their decisions from fantastical tales and emotions, instead of actually reading and responding to the arguments they present. The irony is so palpable that if it wasn't so disingenuous, it might even be funny. Here's some actual insight on the topic: link to this video
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On “DeepMind AI reading list [pdf]”

I'd echo one of their recommendations: Robert Mile's YouTube channel focussing on AI safety. He presents the material in a very interesting and accessible way. For example, this video on whether or not corporations can be considered a form of superintelligence: link to this video
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On “Dude, You Broke the Future (2017)”

Robert Miles has an interesting response to the claim that corporations are AIs: link to this video To paraphrase: yes, corporations function as agents, but their maximum performance is limited by the capabilities of their employees. A corporate AI may have a much broader set of skills than any single person, and may be able to tackle many concurrent tasks, but as an "intelligent agent" its decision making capabilities probably don't scale exponentially (or even linearly) with its headcount. In the sense that a corporation's maximum intelligence is likely to be in the same ballpark as the smartest humans, it can't be seen as a true superintelligence.
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On “It looks like you’re trying to take over the world”

There's a good video by Robert Miles about that 'Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?' link to this video are kind of like AIs, if you squint. How hard do you have to squint though, and is it worth it? In this video we ask: Are corporations artificial general superintelligences?
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On “We could stumble into AI catastrophe”

>We have that now. It's called a corporation. I think there’s a good argument to say no, we don’t have that now, and these are some ways it could be very different. Video: Why not just think of AGI as a corporation? link to this video
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On “YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content”

There seems to be an AI safety problem here: The youtube algorithm is optimizing for engagement at the cost of some other less-quantifiable human value like social trust. link to this video
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On “There Is No A.I”

> Most of the things people are worried about AI doing are things corporations already do. There is a rebuttal to this view presented here by Robert Miles: link to this video
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On “Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs May Arise”

4 years ago: Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation? link to this video >Who’s in control? Nobody. This falls in with Meditations On Moloch.
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