This Friday, we'll discuss "Cooperative AI: machines must learn to find common ground": "AI needs social understanding and cooperative intelligence to integrate well into society. The coming years might give rise to diverse ecologies of AI systems that interact in rapid and complex ways with each other and with humans: on pavements and roads, in consumer and financial markets, in e-mail communication and social media, in cybersecurity and physical security. Autonomous vehicles or smart cities that do not engage well with humans will fail to deliver their benefits, and might even disrupt stable human relationships." Comment: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01170-0 Alignment newsletter summary: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/3zmKzbMPjPvEcZfkn/an-150-the-subtypes-o... We'll meet Friday at 1. https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/2739792686?pwd=VkRUeHJkYnhvTzlvZzR6YnZWNERKQT0...