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These are unanswered questions which we've reviewed and decided are within Stampy's scope. Feel free to answer them if you want to help out. Your answers will be reviewed, stamped, and possibly improved by others so don't worry about them not being perfect :)

There are 28 unanswered canonical questions! (but if we get through those there are 49 incoming ones to review, and 2581 from YouTube which could be raw material for more)

See also

• Questions
• Canonical questions
• Upcoming questions - next questions which will be posted to the Discord
• Random unanswered question.

Top questions

What is Coherent Extrapolated Volition?

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How likely is an intelligence explosion?

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Can we teach a superintelligence a moral code with machine learning?

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Can we program the superintelligence to maximize human pleasure or desire satisfaction?

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Can’t we just program the superintelligence not to harm us?

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What can we expect the motivations of a superintelligent machine to be?

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How can I get hired by an organization working on AI alignment?

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I’m convinced that this is important and want to contribute. What can I do to help?

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What is AI alignment?

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I’d like to get deeper into the AI alignment literature. Where should I look?

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What is narrow AI?

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Is donating small amounts to AI safety organisations going to make a non-negligible difference?

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If AI takes over the world how could it create and maintain the infrastructure that humans currently provide?

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If AI takes over the world, how could it create and maintain its hardware, its power supply and everything else that humans currently provide?

What are low cost things people who won't become researchers can do to contribute?

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What is GPT-3?

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What is Codex / Github Copilot?

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What is whole brain emulation?

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What is Whole Brain Emulation / WBE / Uploads?

What is the orthogonality thesis?

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What organizations are working on AI existential safety?

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What is 'Transformative AI'?

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What is a quantilizer?

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What's especially worrisome about autonomous weapons?

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What are some important terms in AI alignment?

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What external content would be useful to the Stampy project?

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Who is Stampy?

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