
Yudkowsky's collected LessWrong essays, free online and in compiled book form, develop the epistemic foundations that underpin his AI doom arguments. The reasoning about cognitive biases, Bayesian updating, and decision theory is independently useful; the AI safety arguments that follow are the most influential non-peer-reviewed work in the field.
Chosen by shared topics, the entries that hold them, and the people who recommended both.
Recommended by: Bill Gates
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Why China may match the US in AI now that applying it matters more than research.
Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Alfred Lin and 2 others
AI research from Dartmouth in 1956 to the funding cuts, told by the field's leaders.
The founder scene around OpenAI, reported from inside the funding rounds.
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