“Personal AI Planning” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

LLMs are getting much more capable, and progress is rapid. I use them in my daily work, and there are many tasks where they're usefully some combination of faster and more capable than I am. I don't see signs of these capability increases stopping or slowing down, and if they do continue I expect the impact on society to start accelerating as they exceed what an increasing fraction of humans can do. I think we could see serious changes in the next 2-5 years. In my professional life, working on pathogen detection I take this pretty seriously. Advances in AI make it easier for adversaries to design and create pathogens, and so it's important to get a comprehensive detection system in place quickly. Similarly, more powerful AIs are likely to speed up our work in some areas (computational detection) more than others (partnerships) and increase the value of [...] --- First published: November 10th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4ereNiQatcxxZpHuL/personal-ai-planning --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.