Research / Sources
AI research and discussion on LessWrong. www.lesswrong.com
An essay arguing that AI should be governed as a potentially abnormal technology, critiquing the 'AI as Normal Technology' framing on loss-of-control risk, gradual disempowerment, and competitive pressure.
A LessWrong essay rebuts Narayanan and Kapoor's 'AI as normal technology' thesis, arguing AI is categorically transformative and that diffusion-speed and intelligence-measurement arguments understate its risks and impact.
An essay arguing that powerful AI systems, companies and governments should be held to cryptographic or physical verification of their claims, citing FTX, nuclear inspection and emissions monitoring as precedents.
Speculative essay arguing that humans might voluntarily hand control to AI, possibly via insiders training deliberately misaligned models, and that GPU embargoes and alignment research would not stop this.
Proposes eight conceptual pathways by which gradual disempowerment could become permanent even if AIs are shutdownable, covering principal choices, legal lock-in, value drift and coordination failure.