Tag: AI Safety

The Problem of Social Cost in Multi-Agent Universal Reinforcement Learning

December 5, 2024

While I have worked on aspects of AI safety for quite a few years now, in particular privacy technologies and confidential computing, I am a late convert on the importance of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) safety research and did not take the problem seriously until about 1 year ago. My mindset has now changed completely … More The Problem of Social Cost in Multi-Agent Universal Reinforcement Learning

A Simple Definition of Artificial Intelligence

August 6, 2023

There are many different definitions of Artificial Intelligence in the literature, all are suggestive and insightful. However, at the end of the day, I think there is really one simple enough to be understood and formalised rigorously. This is John McCarthy’s original definition of AI from 1955: “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”. … More A Simple Definition of Artificial Intelligence