The book's main message has two parts: (1) Focus attention on the upside potential of AI for humanity, not just downside risks and existential threats, (2) Achieve this by developing an architecture for 'alignment' or 'safety and control' using AI itself—'fighting fire with fire' by using AI systems to control other AI systems, rather than treating humans as passive victims who must be protected from AI.
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“there are two things that we tried to do in the book one was to get people to focus a little bit more on the upside there's been a huge amount of coverage of the the downside risk the existential threats etc etc but the impact of this on Humanity on the upside should be unbelievable and Eric mentioned that a little earlier the key in in getting people to to set aside their concerns is you have to have some architecture for what they call alignment or safety and control and you know we've started to think about and now we start to see other people both in the academic world and even more recently the open AI announcement where people are starting to realize that they're may be a way to deal with this where you use the AI to control the AI”
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