INTERVIEW: StakeOut.AI w/ Dr. Peter Park (2)

Into AI Safety

Join me for round 2 with Dr. Peter Park, an AI Existential Safety Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Max Tegmark at MIT. Dr. Park was a cofounder of StakeOut.AI, a non-profit focused on making AI go well for humans, along with Harry Luk and one other individual, whose name has been removed due to requirements of her current position.

In addition to the normal links, I wanted to include the links to the petitions that Dr. Park mentions during the podcast. Note that the nonprofit which began these petitions, StakeOut.AI, has been dissolved.
Right AI Laws, to Right Our Future: Support Artificial Intelligence Safety Regulations Now
Is Deepfake Illegal? Not Yet! Ban Deepfakes to Protect Your Family & Demand Deepfake Laws
Ban Superintelligence: Stop AI-Driven Human Extinction Risk

00:00:54 - Intro
00:02:34 - Battleground 1: Copyright
00:06:28 - Battleground 2: Moral Critique of AI Collaborationists
00:08:15 - Rich Sutton
00:20:41 - OpenAI Drama
00:34:28 - Battleground 3: Contract Negotiations for AI Ban Clauses
00:37:57 - Tesla, Autopilot, and FSD
00:40:02 - Recycling
00:47:40 - Battleground 4: New Laws and Policies
00:50:00 - Battleground 5: Whistleblower Protections
00:53:07 - Whistleblowing on Microsoft
00:54:43 - Andrej Karpathy & Exercises in Empathy
01:05:57 - Outro

Links to all articles/papers which are mentioned throughout the episode can be found below, in order of their appearance.

• StakeOut.AI
• The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work
• Susman Godfrey LLP
• Rich Sutton
  • Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (textbook)
  • AI Succession (presentation by Rich Sutton)
  • The Alberta Plan for AI Research
• Moore's Law
  • The Future of Integrated Electronics (original paper)
  • Computer History Museum's entry on Moore's Law
• Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) on Wikipedia
• OpenAI Drama
  • Max Read's Substack post
  • Zvi Mowshowitz's Substack series, in order of posting
    • OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend
    • OpenAI: The Battle of the Board
    • OpenAI: Altman Returns
    • OpenAI: Leaks Confirm the Story ← best singular post in the series
    • OpenAI: The Board Expands
  • Official OpenAI announcement
• WGA on Wikipedia
• SAG-AFTRA on Wikipedia
• Tesla's False Advertising
  • Tesla's response to the DMV's false-advertising allegations: What took so long?
  • Tesla Tells California DMV that FSD Is Not Capable of Autonomous Driving
  • What to Call Full Self-Driving When It Isn't Full Self-Driving?
  • Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube
  • Tesla's page on Autopilot and Full Self-Driving
• Recycling
  • Boulder County Recycling Center Stockpiles Accurately Sorted Recyclable Materials
  • Out of sight, out of mind
  • Boulder Eco-Cycle Recycling Guidelines
• Divide-and-Conquer Dynamics in AI-Driven Disempowerment
• Microsoft Whistleblower
  • Whistleblowers call out AI's flaws
  • Shane's LinkedIn post
    • Letters sent by Jones
• Karpathy announces departure from OpenAI