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Fwd: congrats on the falcon 9

[redacted] to Elon Musk, January 2, 2016

An unnamed correspondent writes to Musk questioning the safety of open-sourcing AI. Musk forwarded it to Altman, Sutskever and Brockman on Jan 2, 2016 at 8:18 AM.

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From
[redacted]
Sent
Saturday, January 2, 2016 10:12 AM CST
To
Elon Musk
Subject
Fwd: congrats on the falcon 9
Hi Elon Happy new year to you, [redacted]! Congratulations on landing the Falcon 9, what an amazing achievement. Time to build out the fleet now! I've seen you (and Sam and other OpenAI people) doing a lot of interviews recently extolling the virtues of open sourcing AI, but I presume you realise that this is not some sort of panacea that will somehow magically solve the safety problem? There are many good arguments as to why the approach you are taking is actually very dangerous and in fact may increase the risk to the world. Some of the more obvious points are well articulated in this blog post, that I'm sure you've seen, but there are also other important considerations: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/ I'd be interested to hear your counter-arguments to these points. Best, [redacted] [Elon forwards the above email to Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman on Jan 2, 2016 8:18AM]
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The whole thread

  1. Jan 2, 2016 [redacted] Hi Elon Happy new year to you, [redacted]! Congratulations on landing the Falcon 9, what an amazing…
  2. Jan 2, 2016 Ilya Sutskever The article is concerned with a hard takeoff scenario: if a hard takeoff occurs, and a safe AI is harder to…
  3. Jan 2, 2016 Elon Musk Yup