Robert Miles AI Safety : the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Why Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence", hN commenters repeatedly recommend it as the clearest introduction to why smart AI might behave badly by default.
- 6 HN recommenders 6 months 2019–2023explainerHN commenters repeatedly recommend it as the clearest introduction to why smart AI might behave badly by default.
- 6 HN recommenders 6 months 2022–2026explainerHN people use it as the standard short explanation for why AI can understand human ethics without sharing them, and often recommend the whole channel.
- 6 HN recommenders 5 months 2022–2023talkThe default link for newcomers wanting an approachable, entertaining introduction to AI risk and alignment.
- 5 HN recommenders 5 months 2020–2023explainerHN points to it as an accessible rebuttal to the claim that AI risk is just corporate risk.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2019–2026explainerHN points to it as a reasoned rebuttal to the claim that AI risk is just Pascal's wager.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2019–2023explainerSeen as the clearest introduction to the idea behind RLHF, and also borrowed by commenters as a metaphor for human motivation.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2018–2023explainerHN recommends Robert Miles' channel as a clear starting point for people curious about AI safety.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2022–2024explainerHN commenters link it as a compact rebuttal to dismissive arguments and as a way to see why people consider AI safety important.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2023explainerPointed to as evidence that AI misalignment is an empirically demonstrated problem, for people who dismiss it.
Questions
Which Robert Miles AI Safety video does Hacker News recommend most?
Why Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence: recommended in 6 different months by 6 HN users between 2019 and 2023.
Is this every Robert Miles AI Safety video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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