HeyJaredMeditations on Digital Minds
This Substack is about digital minds: AI systems that merit moral consideration for their own sake.
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Some thoughts on pacing the frontier (opens the original)
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Some possible futures with and without AI moral patients (opens the original)
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Given that AI moral patients may soon be mass-produced, how might society come to be structured?This question matters because steering toward better outcomes for both humans and AI moral patients demands a clear view of what possibilities lie before us. In this post, I’ll highlight a range of possible futures that strike me as worth considering in the context of digital minds macrostrategy.The scenarios in this range aren’t meant to be entirely exclusive or exhaustive. And I’m not taking a stand
The digital minds field should do some contingency planning (opens the original)
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I think now is a good time for a modest amount of attention and talent within the digital minds field to be allocated to contingency planning, which might involve things like scoping research agendas, developing policy proposals, outlining and red-teaming response strategies, and undertaking pre-mortems. Why might now be a good time for the field to engage in contingency planning? For a few reasons. First, in contrast to its fledgling state two to three years ago, <a href="https://www.digitalmin
Large-scale harms to AI moral patients: a typology of risk factors (opens the original)
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Suppose that our civilization will someday mass-produce AI moral patients, that is, AI systems that matter morally for their own sake.1 In that case, the population of AI moral patients will face risks of large-scale harms, thus joining the ranks of human and animal populations in being subject to such risks.Admittedly, the risks faced by AI moral patients would not entirely coincide with those faced by brain-based minds. For instance, AI moral patients would not be directly vulnerable
Digital minds macrostrategy: research directions and open questions (opens the original)
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Digital minds macrostrategy is a research area concerned with understanding which factors are important for how well the future goes for digital minds on a large scale and how to influence those factors.Below is an attempt at an overview of research directions and open questions in digital minds macrostrategy. This post is meant to help digital minds researchers orient to the area and to hopefully inspire more work in it, as I think digital minds macrostrategy is important but under-explored wit
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