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Kelsey Piper
Kelsey Piper is a journalist at Vox's Future Perfect, where she has covered AI's risks and politics since before it was news, and a co-writer of Planned Obsolescence. Her reporting broke the story of OpenAI's restrictive exit agreements in 2024.
Commentary by Kelsey Piper
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- 1 May 2023 · Planned ObsolescenceThe costs of cautionIf you thought we might be able to cure cancer in 2200, then I think you ought to expect there’s a good chance we can do it within years of the advent of AI systems that can do the research work humans can do.
- 30 March 2023 · Planned ObsolescenceIs it time for a pause?The single most important thing we can do is to pause when the next model we train would be powerful enough to obsolete humans entirely. If it were up to me, I would slow down AI development starting now — and then later slow down even more.
- 26 March 2023 · Planned ObsolescenceThe ethics of AI red-teamingIf we’ve decided we’re collectively fine with unleashing millions of spam bots, then the least we can do is actually study what they can – and can’t – do.
- 26 March 2023 · Planned ObsolescenceSituational awarenessAI systems that have a precise understanding of how they’ll be evaluated and what behavior we want them to display will earn more reward than AI systems that don’t.
- 26 March 2023 · Planned ObsolescencePlaying the training gameWe're creating incentives for AI systems to make their behavior look as desirable as possible, while intentionally disregarding human intent when that conflicts with maximizing reward.