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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 42 unanswered canonical questions! (but if we get through those there are 3 incoming ones to review, and 2683 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.

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How likely is an intelligence explosion?

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

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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?

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

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

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

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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 narrow AI?

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Isn't the real concern autonomous weapons?

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Is it likely that hardware will allow an exponential takeoff?

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How successfully have institutions managed risks from novel technology in the past?

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In what ways are real world machine learning systems different from expected utility maximizers?

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Which country will AGI be created by, and does this matter?

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What about AI concerns other than existential safety?

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What's especially worrisome about autonomous weapons?

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Isn't the real concern AI enabled totalitarianism?

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Even if we are rationally convinced about the urgency of existential risks, it can be hard to feel that emotionally, because the danger is quite abstract. How can this gap be bridged?

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What should be marked as a related question on Stampy's Wiki?

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AGI will be a computer program. Why wouldn't it just do what it's programmed to do?

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AGI is a computer program. Why wouldn't it just do what it's programmed to do?

What is 'Transformative AI'?

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What is a quantilizer?

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What is GPT-3?

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What is meant by AI takeoff?

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What is Codex / Github Copilot?

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What is the orthogonality thesis?

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