Satirical Proposal for an AI Alignment Coordination Center
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Summary
The article presents a satirical concept of a "Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers" that aims to coordinate and subsume all other AI alignment research organizations into a single entity. It humorously addresses the coordination problems within the AI safety community, questioning who ensures that the researchers working on AI alignment are themselves properly aligned. The piece uses irony to comment on the proliferation of AI safety initiatives and the meta-problem of aligning the aligners themselves.
Key quotes
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We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums into one final AI center singularity.
Every day, thousands of researchers race to solve the AI alignment problem. But they struggle to coordinate on the basics, like whether a misaligned superintelligence will seek to destroy humanity, or just enslave and torture us forever.
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