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date: '2022-12-19T14:09:11'
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- My AI Safety Lecture for UT Effective Altruism
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text: I think the emphasis is wrong here. The regulation is secondary. The long
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<blockquote> And famously, self-driving cars have taken a lot longer than many people expected a decade ago. This is partly because of regulatory barriers and public relations: even if a self-driving car actually crashes less than a human does, thats still not good enough, because when it does crash the circumstances are too weird. So, the AI is actually held to a higher standard. But its also partly just that there was a long tail of really weird events. A deer crosses the road, or you have some crazy lighting conditions—such things are really hard to get right, and of course 99% isnt good enough here.</blockquote>I think the emphasis is wrong here. The regulation is secondary. The long tail of weird events is the more important thing.