Thinking of all the colleagues and friends I have who are connected to Brown University. What a devastating day for Brown, and for all of us.

Introspection targets our ongoing or recently past mental states. What could it mean for a system that lacks any obvious analogue of a continuous stream of experience to have current or recently past “internal states” to introspect on?

Robert Long makes a similar point in his substack

This is a beautiful paper! The first third helpfully labels a stream of recent work in philosophy of AI as "propositional interpretability". The idea is to use propositional attitudes like belief, desire, and intention, to help explain AI in a way that we can understand. 1/n

MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks | TechCrunch A group of researchers at MIT and elsewhere have compiled what they claim is the most thorough databases of possible risks around AI use.

"The AI risk repository, which includes over 700 AI risks grouped by causal factors (e.g. intentionality), and domains (e.g. discrimination), was born out of a desire to understand the overlaps and disconnects in AI safety research"
#AIEthics

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Would love to be included!