Preston Estep

Instrumental succession: the gradual transfer of agency to AI

Download PDF Read on Frontiers in Psychology Abstract People have long speculated about the potential dangers of powerful, self-improving artificial intelligence. Much of this speculation is anthropomorphic, assuming that AI systems will behave very similarly to humans. Omohundro’s Basic AI Drives and Bostrom’s orthogonality and instrumental convergence theses are widely accepted as foundational to emerging […]

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Why We Might Need Advanced AI to Save Us from Doomers, Rather Than the Other Way Around [UNABRIDGED]

Dr. Preston Estep’s full review of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares THE UNABRIDGED VERSION[Download PDF] This unabridged version of the review is substantially longer than the short version that was published in SuperIntelligence. It is for those who are interested in

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