Samantha Augusta
@samantha-augusta.bsky.social
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HAI Fellow @ Stanford focusing on risk & safety 🖇️ 🦜
HAI Fellow @ Stanford focusing on risk & safety 🖇️ 🦜
June 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
9/9 📄 Gradual Disempowerment paper - give it a serous read: arxiv.org/abs/2501.16946
Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development
This paper examines the systemic risks posed by incremental advancements in artificial intelligence, developing the concept of `gradual disempowerment', in contrast to the abrupt takeover scenarios co...
arxiv.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
9/9 📄 Gradual Disempowerment paper - give it a serous read: arxiv.org/abs/2501.16946
8/9 These billboards should serve as reminders of what’s at stake if we don’t steer ahead wisely. We can’t afford to treat safety, alignment, and human relevance as secondary problems.
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
8/9 These billboards should serve as reminders of what’s at stake if we don’t steer ahead wisely. We can’t afford to treat safety, alignment, and human relevance as secondary problems.
7/9 If the end goal of this "race" is to automate all economically valuable human work—and if we take companies like OpenAI’s mission statements at face value, that does seem to be the goal—then we need to ask: what’s on the other side of winning?
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
7/9 If the end goal of this "race" is to automate all economically valuable human work—and if we take companies like OpenAI’s mission statements at face value, that does seem to be the goal—then we need to ask: what’s on the other side of winning?
6/9 As AI systems become more capable, they may replace us not in one dramatic leap, but across countless small decisions—undermining the systems that currently tie economic, cultural, and political power to human needs.
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
6/9 As AI systems become more capable, they may replace us not in one dramatic leap, but across countless small decisions—undermining the systems that currently tie economic, cultural, and political power to human needs.
5/9 The Gradual Disempowerment paper (linked below) argues that existential risk from AI may not come from a sudden “takeover,” but from the slow erosion of human influence.
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
5/9 The Gradual Disempowerment paper (linked below) argues that existential risk from AI may not come from a sudden “takeover,” but from the slow erosion of human influence.
4/9 But after days of sober discussion in Leuven about AI's societal impact—especially the risk of gradual disempowerment—this billboard struck me differently. I’d normally laugh at them—they’re such a uniquely Bay Area phenomenon—but this time, it was harder to do that.
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
4/9 But after days of sober discussion in Leuven about AI's societal impact—especially the risk of gradual disempowerment—this billboard struck me differently. I’d normally laugh at them—they’re such a uniquely Bay Area phenomenon—but this time, it was harder to do that.