Digital Intelligence and Coordination
It is the differences between human intelligence and artificial intelligence out of which we construct the narratives about how AI will change the future. Many of our narratives are constructed from observed or anticipated differences in the following traits/dimensions:
- Capability
- Cost
- Agency
- Corrigibility
- Consciousness
For instance, narratives of economic disruption run on projections about cost/capability/agency. P(doom) narratives add in things like corrigibility, and e/acc mixes in elements of consciousness.
This project considers another interesting trait, which rarely makes its way into the mainstream narratives: that of digital implementation. AIs are digital, unlike any other known form of equivalent intelligence. Digital systems provide a large collection of interesting informational primitives which are highly relevant for problems of coordination. We’re only just beginning to explore the space of applications of this mixture of intelligence and digital abstraction.
Without discounting the importance of other narratives around AI, this project focuses narrowly on understanding what we might be missing by paying less attention to the power of digital intelligence for coordination.
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