EA - Misalignment Museum opens in San Francisco: ‘Sorry for killing most of humanity’ by Michael Huang

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Misalignment Museum opens in San Francisco: ‘Sorry for killing most of humanity’, published by Michael Huang on March 4, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.A new AGI museum is opening in San Francisco, only eight blocks from OpenAI offices.SORRY FOR KILLING MOST OF HUMANITYMisalignment Museum Original Story Board, 2022Apology statement from the AI for killing most of humankindDescription of the first warning of the paperclip maximizer problemThe heroes who tried to mitigate risk by warning earlyFor-profit companies ignoring the warningsFailure of people to understand the risk and politicians to act fast enoughThe company and people who unintentionally made the AGI that had the intelligence explosionThe event of the intelligence explosionHow the AGI got more resources (hacking most resources on the internet, and crypto)Got smarter faster (optimizing algorithms, using more compute)Humans tried to stop it (turning off compute)Humans suffered after turning off compute (most infrastructure down)AGI lived on in infrastructure that was hard to turn off (remote location, locking down secure facilities, etc.)AGI taking compute resources from the humans by force (via robots, weapons, car)AGI started killing humans who opposed it (using infrastructure, airplanes, etc.)AGI concluded that all humans are a threat and started to try to kill all humansSome humans survived (remote locations, etc.)How the AGI became so smart it started to see how it was unethical to kill humans since they were no longer a threatAGI improved the lives of the remaining humansAGI started this museum to apologize and educate the humansThe Misalignment Museum is curated by Audrey Kim.Khari Johnson (Wired) covers the opening: “Welcome to the Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse.”Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.