5 research outputs found
Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
We describe a path to humanity safely thriving with powerful Artificial
General Intelligences (AGIs) by building them to provably satisfy
human-specified requirements. We argue that this will soon be technically
feasible using advanced AI for formal verification and mechanistic
interpretability. We further argue that it is the only path which guarantees
safe controlled AGI. We end with a list of challenge problems whose solution
would contribute to this positive outcome and invite readers to join in this
work.Comment: 17 page
Autonomous technology and the greater human good
<p>Military and economic pressures are driving the rapid development of autonomous systems. We show that these systems are likely to behave in anti-social and harmful ways unless they are very carefully designed. Designers will be motivated to create systems that act approximately rationally and rational systems exhibit universal drives towards self-protection, resource acquisition, replication and efficiency. The current computing infrastructure would be vulnerable to unconstrained systems with these drives. We describe the use of formal methods to create provably safe but limited autonomous systems. We then discuss harmful systems and how to stop them. We conclude with a description of the ‘Safe-AI Scaffolding Strategy’ for creating powerful safe systems with a high confidence of safety at each stage of development.</p
The TESS-Keck Survey. VIII. Confirmation of a Transiting Giant Planet on an Eccentric 261 Day Orbit with the Automated Planet Finder Telescope
We report the discovery of TOI-2180 b, a 2.8 giant planet
orbiting a slightly evolved G5 host star. This planet transited only once in
Cycle 2 of the primary Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.
Citizen scientists identified the 24 hr single-transit event shortly after the
data were released, allowing a Doppler monitoring campaign with the Automated
Planet Finder telescope at Lick Observatory to begin promptly. The radial
velocity observations refined the orbital period of TOI-2180 b to be
260.80.6 days, revealed an orbital eccentricity of 0.3680.007, and
discovered long-term acceleration from a more distant massive companion. We
conducted ground-based photometry from 14 sites spread around the globe in an
attempt to detect another transit. Although we did not make a clear transit
detection, the nondetections improved the precision of the orbital period. We
predict that TESS will likely detect another transit of TOI-2180 b in Sector 48
of its extended mission. We use giant planet structure models to retrieve the
bulk heavy-element content of TOI-2180 b. When considered alongside other giant
planets with orbital periods over 100 days, we find tentative evidence that the
correlation between planet mass and metal enrichment relative to stellar is
dependent on orbital properties. Single-transit discoveries like TOI-2180 b
highlight the exciting potential of the TESS mission to find planets with long
orbital periods and low irradiation fluxes despite the selection biases
associated with the transit method.Comment: Published in A