Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: New blog: Planned Obsolescence, published by Ajeya on March 27, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.

We (Kelsey and Ajeya) just launched a new blog about AI futurism and AI alignment called Planned Obsolescence. If you’re interested, you can check it out here.

Both of us have thought a fair bit about what we see as the biggest challenges in technical work and in policy to make AI go well, but a lot of our thinking isn’t written up, or is embedded in long technical reports. This is an effort to make our thinking more accessible. That means it’s mostly aiming at a broader audience than LessWrong and the EA Forum, although some of you might still find some of the posts interesting.

So far we have seven posts:

What we're doing here

"Aligned" shouldn't be a synonym for "good"

Situational awareness

Playing the training game

Training AIs to help us align AIs

Alignment researchers disagree a lot

The ethics of AI red-teaming

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