Sigal Samuel
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Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Sigal:
What normal Americans — not AI companies — want for AI
Public opinion about AI can be summed up in two words: Slow. Down. → Read More
Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.
It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old. → Read More
How to understand AI: it’s a tragedy of the commons, not an arms race
"Arms race" is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one. → Read More
Why every generation thinks people were nicer in the past
Reports that we’re becoming crappier humans over time are greatly exaggerated. → Read More
A message just arrived from outer space. Can you decode it?
A revolutionary SETI experiment seeks to find out how earthlings might respond to a signal from aliens. → Read More
Please don’t turn to ChatGPT for moral advice. Yet.
AI for the moral enhancement of humans? Sounds tempting. But we shouldn’t be so quick to automate our reasoning. → Read More
Mind-reading technology has arrived
An AI-powered "brain decoder" can now read your thoughts with surprising accuracy. → Read More
Finally, a realistic roadmap for getting AI companies in check
The AI Now Institute offers a policy roadmap for managing risks from artificial intelligence. Step one: Target the concentration of power in Big Tech. → Read More
What happens when ChatGPT starts to feed on its own writing?
AI chatbots won’t destroy human originality. But they may homogenize our lives and flatten our reality. → Read More
Humanity’s return to the moon is a deeply religious mission
Space barons like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk don’t seem religious. But their quest to colonize outer space is. → Read More
AI leaders (and Elon Musk) urge all labs to press pause on powerful AI
We got GPT-4. We could stop there for now, placing a moratorium on new AI systems more powerful than that. → Read More
The case for slowing down AI
Pumping the brakes on artificial intelligence could be the best thing we ever do for humanity. → Read More
Climate disasters hit poor people hardest. There’s an obvious solution to that.
New experiments show the power of giving cash right before extreme weather strikes. → Read More
You can now sponsor refugees yourself. Here’s how.
Biden’s new Welcome Corps program offers an amazing opportunity to do good. → Read More
How to reform effective altruism after Sam Bankman-Fried
Holden Karnofsky, seen as a leader in EA, shares his thoughts on the movement’s future. → Read More
You may be thinking about animals all wrong (even if you’re an animal lover)
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum says humans should grant equal rights to animals, even in the wild. Is she right? → Read More
23 things we think will happen in 2023
Will Biden and Trump remain the frontrunners? Will Putin remain in charge of Russia? Will China start a war? These and other forecasts of the year to come. → Read More
22 predictions we made in 2022, and the 6 we got wrong
Judging Future Perfect’s 2022 predictions on Covid, politics, science, and more → Read More
Lots of bad science still gets published. Here’s how we can change that.
The Transparent Replications project tackles the crisis by changing incentives among psychologists and other researchers publishing in journals like Nature or Science. → Read More
Effective altruism gave rise to Sam Bankman-Fried. Now it’s facing a moral reckoning.
Here are 6 questions the intellectual movement needs to grapple with after the crypto billionaire’s fall. → Read More