The questions shaping AI
Start with a question. Read the positions, follow their sources, and compare the people making the arguments.
What are the biggest risks from AI?
Compare arguments about catastrophic risk, present harms, and the choices that could make AI safer.
Explore the positionsHow close is human-level AI?
Read the forecasts alongside disagreements about what AGI means and what would count as reaching it.
Explore the positionsWho should have access to powerful models?
Explore the tradeoffs between open weights, public research, competition, and control over advanced capabilities.
Explore the positionsWho should set the rules for AI?
Compare proposals for regulating applications, frontier developers, and international research, with the sources behind each position.
Explore the positionsCan language models reach general intelligence?
Examine claims about understanding, scale, human training data, and the need for other architectures.
Explore the positionsWhat can AI learn through experience?
Start with David Silver's positions on reinforcement learning, self-play, and when other methods are more appropriate. Coverage will grow as profiles are added.
Explore the positionsHow much autonomy should AI have?
Explore agentic workflows, responsibility for their actions, and proposals for systems that help people without pursuing goals of their own.
Explore the positionsWho benefits from AI's economic gains?
Compare views on employment, skills, inequality, and how the benefits of AI might be distributed.
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