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Jan 1, 1996 · Abstract. All else being equal, not many people would prefer to destroy the world. Even faceless corporations, meddling governments, reckless scientists, and other agents of doom, require a world in which to achieve their goals of profit, order, tenure, or other villainies. If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified ...
But this makes AI catastrophes more worrisome, not less. The effect of many cognitive biases has been found to increase with time pressure, cognitive busyness, or sparse information. Which is to say that the more difficult the analytic challenge, the more important it is to avoid or reduce bias.
Aug 29, 2023 · Together with the use of disinformation and technologies, cognitive biases of individuals in a population are susceptible to being exploited and manipulated by an external actor in order to alter their behaviour, beliefs and decision-making to achieve their strategic goals. As pointed by NATO, the… Expand
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a research fellow at the Singularity Institute, where he researches Friendly AI and recursive self-improvement. In 2001, he published Creating Friendly AI: The Analysis and Design of Benevolent Goal Architectures. He is the author of the papers “Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks” and “AI ...
Nov 11, 2022 · Cognitive bias is the tendency to act in an irrational way due to our limited ability to process information objectively. It is not always negative, but it can cloud our judgment and affect how clearly we perceive situations, people, or potential risks. Example: Cognitive bias. One common manifestation of cognitive bias is the stereotype that ...
Psychological research has uncovered a vast array of heuristics and biases during the last few decades. Some of these mistakes are particularly relevant for the study of existential risks: 1. The availability heuristic means that if we can easily or quickly remember ideas or examples, then we tend to think that they are important and/or likely ...
Sep 6, 2022 · Call for papers. EJRR Special Issue on Long-term Risks and Future Generations. 06 Sep 2022 to 15 Oct 2022. Dear colleagues, There is a strong presentism bias in current modes of governance. A high-velocity, short-term culture dominates our political, financial, social and cultural systems, to the point of systematically lacking concern for ...
