Below are the note from the guest speaker Alex Kiefer as well as the link to a blog post that’s some of the source material for his article for our last class on May 2. Please read his draft ” Life a Original Papers

Below are the note from the guest speaker Alex Kiefer as well as the link to a blog post that’s some of the source material for his article for our last class on May 2. Please read  his draft ” Life and the Possibility of Deep Alignment”  and write down a question to address to the guest speakerthat might initiate some discussion FOR EXTRA CREDIT. Blog post:

https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/HzcM2dkCq7fwXBej8/p/4basF9w9jaPZpoC8R

Alex’s note:This is a draft that I have been working on for the past ~4 months. It summarizes lots of technical material but the basic message is that AI systems built on digital computers can never be true ‘agents’ in the sense that living things can. This is a new spin on an old argument that has become pressing in today’s world.