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Adults who suspect they may be autistic or have ADHD show corresponding neurodevelopmental polygenic effects
The authors have declared no competing interest. I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below: Human Biology Research Ethics Committee of University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) gave ethical approval for this work (HBREC.2020.07).
The motivation to hit the road?
When you're someone who thrives on being busy, and you suddenly find yourself with a LOT of time on your hands, it takes a bit of getting used to: letting go of the routine, the discipline, the way of life you have followed for eight years. What's more, it is easy to wonder what on earth to do with it: do you chase more work like a mad man? Work on home improvement? Work on self improvement? OR, do you invest in the one thing that, really, is why you work so hard in the first place: your family?
GenomicSEM Modelling of Diverse Executive Function GWAS Improves Gene Discovery
Abstract Previous research has supported the use of factor scores as the gold-standard in measuring executive function. However, for logistical reasons genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of executive function have largely eschewed factor scores in favour of singular task measures. As low correlations have traditionally been found between individual executive function (EF) tests, it is unclear whether these GWAS have truly been measuring the same construct.
Anthony Aguirre and Anna Yelizarova on FLI's Worldbuilding Contest
Find the podcast on: Anthony Aguirre and Anna Yelizarova join us to discuss FLI’s new Worldbuilding Contest. Topics discussed in this episode include: Motivations behind the contest The importance of worldbuilding The rules of the contest What a submission consists of Due date and prizes Watch the video version of this episode here Check out the Worldbuilding Contest page here Follow Lucas on Twitter here 0:00 Intro 2:30 What is “worldbuilding” and FLI’s Worldbuilding Contest?
Rohin Shah on the State of AGI Safety Research in 2021
Find the podcast on: Rohin Shah, Research Scientist on DeepMind’s technical AGI safety team, joins us to discuss: AI value alignment; how an AI Researcher might decide whether to work on AI Safety; and why we don’t know that AI systems won’t lead to existential risk.
James Manyika on Global Economic and Technological Trends
Find the podcast on: James Manyika, Chairman and Director of the McKinsey Global Institute, joins us to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of the modern global economy and the role of technology in it.
Michael Klare on the Pentagon's view of Climate Change and the Risks of State Collapse
Find the podcast on: Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace & World Security Studies, joins us to discuss the Pentagon’s view of climate change, why it’s distinctive, and how this all ultimately relates to the risks of great powers conflict and state collapse.
Nicolas Berggruen on the Dynamics of Power, Wisdom, and Ideas in the Age of AI
Find the podcast on: Nicolas Berggruen, investor and philanthropist, joins us to explore the dynamics of power, wisdom, and ideas in the 21st century. Topics discussed in this episode include: What wisdom consists of The role of ideas in society and civilization The increasing concentration of power and wealth The technological displacement of human labor Democracy, universal basic income, and universal basic capital Living an examined life Have any feedback about the podcast?
Future of Life Award 2020: Saving 200,000,000 Lives by Eradicating Smallpox
Find the podcast on: The recipients of the 2020 Future of Life Award, William Foege, Michael Burkinsky, and Victor Zhdanov Jr., join us on this episode of the FLI Podcast to recount the story of smallpox eradication, William Foege’s and Victor Zhdanov Sr.’s involvement in the eradication, and their personal experience of the events.
Sean Carroll on Consciousness, Physicalism, and the History of Intellectual Progress
Find the podcast on: Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist at Caltech, joins us on this episode of the FLI Podcast to comb through the history of human thought, the strengths and weaknesses of various intellectual movements, and how we are to situate ourselves in the 21st century given progress thus far.
Kelly Wanser on Climate Change as a Possible Existential Threat
Find the podcast on: Kelly Wanser from SilverLining joins us to discuss techniques for climate intervention to mitigate the impacts of human induced climate change.
Artificial Intelligence Archive
September 15, 2020 Future of Life Institute · Andrew Critch on AI Research Considerations… https://futureoflife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IMG_1165-b-square.jpg 1870 1871 Lucas Perry https://futureoflife.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/FLI_logo-1.png Lucas Perry2020-09-15 19:03:072020-10-27 22:49:05Andrew Critch on AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety September 3, 2020 Future of Life Institute · Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical…...
Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical Questions in AI Alignment
Find the podcast on: In the contemporary practice of many scientific disciplines, questions of values, norms, and political thought rarely explicitly enter the picture. In the realm of AI alignment, however, the normative and technical come together in an important and inseparable way. How do we decide on an appropriate procedure for aligning AI systems to human values when there is disagreement over what constitutes a moral alignment procedure?
Peter Railton on Moral Learning and Metaethics in AI Systems
Find the podcast on: From a young age, humans are capable of developing moral competency and autonomy through experience. We begin life by constructing sophisticated moral representations of the world that allow for us to successfully navigate our way through complex social situations with sensitivity to morally relevant information and variables. This capacity for moral learning allows us to solve open-ended problems with other persons who may hold complex beliefs and preferences.
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Lethal autonomous weapons systems – also called “slaughterbots” or “killer robots” – are weapon systems that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify, select, and kill targets without human intervention. Whereas in the case of unmanned military drones the decision to take life is made remotely by a human operator, in the case of autonomous weapons the decision over who lives and who dies is made solely by algorithms.
Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI
Find the podcast on: Over the past several centuries, the human condition has been profoundly changed by the agricultural and industrial revolutions. With the creation and continued development of AI, we stand in the midst of an ongoing intelligence revolution that may prove far more transformative than the previous two. How did we get here, and what were the intellectual foundations necessary for the creation of AI?
Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most
Find the podcast on: Human civilization increasingly has the potential both to improve the lives of everyone and to completely destroy everything. The proliferation of emerging technologies calls our attention to this never-before-seen power — and the need to cultivate the wisdom with which to steer it towards beneficial outcomes. If we’re serious both as individuals and as a species about improving the world, it’s crucial that we converge around the reality of our situation and what matters most.
FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church
Find the podcast on: Progress in synthetic biology and genetic engineering promise to bring advancements in human health sciences by curing disease, augmenting human capabilities, and even reversing aging. At the same time, such technology could be used to unleash novel diseases and biological agents which could pose global catastrophic and existential risks to life on Earth.
Future of Life Institute
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will one day become the most powerful technology in human history, being either the best thing ever to happen to humanity, or the worst. Polls have shown that most AI researchers expect artificial general intelligence (AGI) within decades, able to perform all cognitive tasks at super-human level. This could enable dramatic acceleration of science and technology, curing diseases, eliminating poverty and helping life spread into our cosmos.
FLI Podcast: Lessons from COVID-19 with Emilia Javorsky and Anthony Aguirre
Find the podcast on: The global spread of COVID-19 has put tremendous stress on humanity’s social, political, and economic systems. The breakdowns triggered by this sudden stress indicate areas where national and global systems are fragile, and where preventative and preparedness measures may be insufficient. The COVID-19 pandemic thus serves as an opportunity for reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of human civilization and what we can do to help make humanity more resilient.
AI Alignment Podcast: On Lethal Autonomous Weapons with Paul Scharre
Find the podcast on: Lethal autonomous weapons represent the novel miniaturization and integration of modern AI and robotics technologies for military use. This emerging technology thus represents a potentially critical inflection point in the development of AI governance.
FLI Podcast: Distributing the Benefits of AI via the Windfall Clause with Cullen O'Keefe
Find the podcast on: As with the agricultural and industrial revolutions before it, the intelligence revolution currently underway will unlock new degrees and kinds of abundance. Powerful forms of AI will likely generate never-before-seen levels of wealth, raising critical questions about its beneficiaries. Will this newfound wealth be used to provide for the common good, or will it become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few who wield AI technologies?
AI Alignment Podcast: Identity and the AI Revolution with David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Find the podcast on: In the 1984 book Reasons and Persons, philosopher Derek Parfit asks the reader to consider the following scenario: You step into a teleportation machine that scans your complete atomic structure, annihilates you, and then relays that atomic information to Mars at the speed of light. There, a similar machine recreates your exact atomic structure and composition using locally available resources. Have you just traveled, Parfit asks, or have you committed suicide?
FLI Podcast: On Consciousness, Morality, Effective Altruism & Myth with Yuval Noah Harari & Max Tegmark
Neither Yuval Noah Harari nor Max Tegmark need much in the way of introduction. Both are avant-garde thinkers at the forefront of 21st century discourse around science, technology, society and humanity’s future. This conversation represents a rare opportunity for two intellectual leaders to apply their combined expertise — in physics, artificial intelligence, history, philosophy and anthropology — to some of the most profound issues of our time.
FLI Podcast: The Psychology of Existential Risk and Effective Altruism with Stefan Schubert
We could all be more altruistic and effective in our service of others, but what exactly is it that’s stopping us? What are the biases and cognitive failures that prevent us from properly acting in service of existential risks, statistically large numbers of people, and long-term future considerations? How can we become more effective altruists?
AI Alignment Podcast: Machine Ethics and AI Governance with Wendell Wallach
Wendell Wallach has been at the forefront of contemporary emerging technology issues for decades now. As an interdisciplinary thinker, he has engaged at the intersections of ethics, governance, AI, bioethics, robotics, and philosophy since the beginning formulations of what we now know as AI alignment were being codified. Wendell began with a broad interest in the ethics of emerging technology and has since become focused on machine ethics and AI governance.
FLI Podcast: Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality with Anthony Aguirre
There exist many facts about the nature of reality which stand at odds with our commonly held intuitions and experiences of the world. Ultimately, there is a relativity of the simultaneity of events and there is no universal “now.” Are these facts baked into our experience of the world? Or are our experiences and intuitions at odds with these facts?
AI Alignment Podcast: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control with Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell is one of AI’s true pioneers and has been at the forefront of the field for decades. His expertise and forward thinking have culminated in his newest work, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. The book is a cornerstone piece, alongside Superintelligence and Life 3.0, that articulates the civilization-scale problem we face of aligning machine intelligence with human goals and values.
AI Alignment Podcast: China's AI Superpower Dream with Jeffrey Ding
“In July 2017, The State Council of China released the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan. This policy outlines China’s strategy to build a domestic AI industry worth nearly US$150 billion in the next few years and to become the leading AI power by 2030.
The FLI Podcast - Future of Life Institute
Future of Life Institute · Bart Selman on the Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence Find the podcast on: Bart Selman, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, joins us to discuss a wide range of AI issues, from autonomous weapons and AI consciousness to international governance and the possibilities of superintelligence. Topics discussed in this […]
AI Alignment Podcast: On the Governance of AI with Jade Leung
In this podcast, Lucas spoke with Jade Leung from the Center for the Governance of AI (GovAI). GovAI strives to help humanity capture the benefits and mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence. The center focuses on the political challenges arising from transformative AI, and they seek to guide the development of such technology for the common good by researching issues in AI governance and advising decision makers.
AI Alignment Podcast: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah (Part 2)
The space of AI alignment research is highly dynamic, and it’s often difficult to get a bird’s eye view of the landscape. This podcast is the second of two parts attempting to partially remedy this by providing an overview of technical AI alignment efforts. In particular, this episode seeks to continue the discussion from Part 1 by going in more depth with regards to the specific approaches to AI alignment. In this podcast, Lucas spoke with Rohin Shah.
AI Alignment Podcast: The Byzantine Generals' Problem, Poisoning, and Distributed Machine Learning with El Mahdi El Mahmdi (Beneficial AGI 2019)
Three generals are voting on whether to attack or retreat from their siege of a castle. One of the generals is corrupt and two of them are not. What happens when the corrupted general sends different answers to the other two generals? A Byzantine fault is “a condition of a computer system, particularly distributed computing systems, where components may fail and there is imperfect information on whether a component has failed.
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