October 2016 Newsletter

News and links

• Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny: a profile by The New Yorker.
• In a promising development, Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft team up to launch a Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society aimed at developing industry best practices.
• Alex Tabarrok vs. Tyler Cowen: “Will Machines Take Our Jobs?” (video)
• Google Brain makes major strides in machine translation.
• A Sam Harris TED talk: “Can we build AI without losing control of it?” (video)
• A number of updates from the Future of Humanity Institute.
• The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is accepting abstracts (due Oct. 18) for its first conference, on such topics as “creating a community for beneficial AI.”
• Andrew Critch: Interested in AI alignment? Apply to Berkeley.