November 2015 Newsletter

Research updates

• A new paper: Leó Szilárd and the Danger of Nuclear Weapons
• New at IAFF: Subsequence Induction
• A shortened version of the Reflective Oracles paper has been published in the LORI 2015 conference proceedings.

General updates

• Castify has released professionally recorded audio versions of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Rationality: From AI to Zombies: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
• I’ve put together a list of excerpts from the many responses to the 2015 Edge.org question, “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”

News and links

• Nick Bostrom speaks on AI risk at the United Nations. (Further information.)
• Bostrom gives a half-hour BBC interview. (UK-only video.)
• Elon Musk and Sam Altman discuss futurism and technology with Vanity Fair.
• From the Open Philanthropy Project: What do we know about AI timelines?
• From the Global Priorities Project: Three areas of research on the superintelligence control problem.
• Paul Christiano writes on inverse reinforcement learning and value of information.
• The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is looking to hire four post-docs to study technological risk. The application deadline is early November 12th.