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r/ControlProblem
The Artificial General Intelligence Control Problem
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Someday, AI will likely be smarter than us; maybe so much so that it could radically reshape our world. We don't know how to encode human values in a computer, so it might not care about the same things as us. If it does not care about our well-being, its acquisition of resources or self-preservation efforts could lead to human extinction. Experts agree that this is one of the most challenging and important problems of our age. Other terms: Superintelligence, AI Safety, Alignment Problem, AGI
##The Control Problem:
How do we ensure future advanced AI will be beneficial to humanity? Experts agree this is one of the most crucial problems of our age, as one that, if left unsolved, can lead to human extinction or worse as a default outcome, but if addressed, can enable a radically impro...
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4,600
Total Comments
21,503
Earliest Submission
September 16, 2015
Earliest Comment
October 2, 2015
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Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 74 | 18,346 | 215.8 | 0.2 | 1410.95 | |
| #2 | 626 | 281,284 | 1825.9 | 2.3 | 778.49 | |
| #3 | 83 | 39,663 | 242.1 | 0.3 | 732.00 | |
| #4 | 53 | 41,535 | 154.6 | 0.3 | 446.36 | |
| #5 | 102 | 87,802 | 297.5 | 0.7 | 406.37 | |
| #6 | 49 | 52,741 | 142.9 | 0.4 | 324.99 | |
| #7 | 36 | 43,556 | 105.0 | 0.4 | 289.12 | |
| #8 | 71 | 87,165 | 207.1 | 0.7 | 284.93 | |
| #9 | 65 | 87,098 | 189.6 | 0.7 | 261.05 | |
| #10 | 207 | 279,369 | 603.8 | 2.3 | 259.19 | |
| #11 | 422 | 691,060 | 1230.9 | 5.8 | 213.61 | |
| #12 | 508 | 891,739 | 1481.8 | 7.4 | 199.27 | |
| #13 | 1,739 | 3,832,391 | 5072.4 | 32.0 | 158.73 | |
| #14 | 214 | 474,410 | 624.2 | 4.0 | 157.79 | |
| #15 | 82 | 197,907 | 239.2 | 1.7 | 144.94 | |
| #16 | 96 | 248,687 | 280.0 | 2.1 | 135.03 | |
| #17 | 32 | 85,901 | 93.3 | 0.7 | 130.31 | |
| #18 | 49 | 159,441 | 142.9 | 1.3 | 107.50 | |
| #19 | 149 | 490,845 | 434.6 | 4.1 | 106.18 | |
| #20 | 89 | 305,442 | 259.6 | 2.5 | 101.93 | |
| #21 | 31 | 111,702 | 90.4 | 0.9 | 97.08 | |
| #22 | 54 | 208,757 | 157.5 | 1.7 | 90.48 | |
| #23 | 207 | 835,688 | 603.8 | 7.0 | 86.65 | |
| #24 | 31 | 136,167 | 90.4 | 1.1 | 79.64 | |
| #25 | 613 | 2,717,871 | 1788.0 | 22.7 | 78.90 | |
| #26 | 128 | 593,940 | 373.4 | 5.0 | 75.39 | |
| #27 | 92 | 435,352 | 268.3 | 3.6 | 73.92 | |
| #28 | 58 | 275,192 | 169.2 | 2.3 | 73.72 | |
| #29 | 62 | 300,928 | 180.8 | 2.5 | 72.07 | |
| #30 | 39 | 194,227 | 113.8 | 1.6 | 70.24 | |
| #31 | 74 | 380,889 | 215.8 | 3.2 | 67.96 | |
| #32 | 616 | 3,253,351 | 1796.8 | 27.1 | 66.23 | |
| #33 | 33 | 181,817 | 96.3 | 1.5 | 63.49 | |
| #34 | 462 | 2,591,113 | 1347.6 | 21.6 | 62.37 | |
| #35 | 52 | 312,621 | 151.7 | 2.6 | 58.18 | |
| #36 | 34 | 208,716 | 99.2 | 1.7 | 56.98 | |
| #37 | 40 | 245,646 | 116.7 | 2.0 | 56.96 | |
| #38 | 42 | 262,164 | 122.5 | 2.2 | 56.04 | |
| #39 | 65 | 442,730 | 189.6 | 3.7 | 51.36 | |
| #40 | 640 | 4,736,730 | 1866.8 | 39.5 | 47.26 | |
| #41 | 803 | 6,472,088 | 2342.2 | 54.0 | 43.40 | |
| #42 | 123 | 991,447 | 358.8 | 8.3 | 43.40 | |
| #43 | 54 | 436,312 | 157.5 | 3.6 | 43.29 | |
| #44 | 118 | 976,583 | 344.2 | 8.1 | 42.27 | |
| #45 | 38 | 318,507 | 110.8 | 2.7 | 41.73 | |
| #46 | 30 | 261,125 | 87.5 | 2.2 | 40.19 | |
| #47 | 38 | 342,137 | 110.8 | 2.9 | 38.85 | |
| #48 | 31 | 285,504 | 90.4 | 2.4 | 37.98 | |
| #49 | 60 | 591,853 | 175.0 | 4.9 | 35.46 | |
| #50 | 171 | 1,788,516 | 498.8 | 14.9 | 33.44 |