#xrisk — Public Fediverse posts

Has anyone done a randomized and/or controlled version of this pre- versus post- test of an automatic order set change protocol?

https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70283

Highly scalable, if a health system is willing to experiment!

#medicine #pneumonia #antibioticResistance #xRisk #informatics

Our 50th episode on the podcast! Part 4 of our alignment series "The SCALE of the Issue" This episode looks at humanity's alignment problem at three different scales, the human, the political and an issue at the core of our microscopic biology #biology #alignment #AI #GoalAlignment #Ethics #XRisk

The Alignment Problem No One i...

(It is IMHO symptomatic that the authors of the paper above, and in general the broader #x-risk / #EffectiveAltruism community, tend to go to great lengths to avoid talking about the obvious solution to unilateralist's curse and many other problems: fair, #democratic sharing of #power.) 12/12

Kayak: in principle, an application that may be well-served by "old" rules-based AI. Its function is supposed to be deterministic, needing more data ingestion & analysis than humans can tolerate.

But if they're calling it "AI" today, I'm sure it's a LLM/neural net gadget which will hallucinate flights & fares. Because we're playing out the theory that the #XRisk of so-called "AI" is in believing that it is smarter than us before it stops being surrealistically stupid.
https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/115385533219971992

A conceptual replication of a result from our U.S. participants in U.K. participants:

A reminder that #antibiotics are probably ineffective for respiratory infections reduced expectations of needless #antibiotics.

https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.70020

#antibioticResistance #AMR #xRisk #edu

How can #hospitals easily reduce #medication orders that can increase #antibioticResistance?

After months of baseline #prescription tracking, a computer #nudge helped docs order 17-35% fewer extended-spectrum #antibiotics.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.11256

#AMR #xRisk #bioethics #CogSci

Early antibiotic treatment in patients hospitalized with non-severe #COVID19 didn't improve outcomes — if anything, early #antibiotics were actually linked to *poorer* clinical outcomes.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.11499

#AntibioticStewardship #AntimicrobialResistance #medicine #xRisk

#Japan launched a national plan to reduce #AntimicrobialResistance in 2016.

Data from 2012 to 2020 show a pretty clear, abrupt, and consistent reduction in overall and inappropriate #antibiotic #prescription corresponding to the launch.

https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlaf062

#medicine #xRisk

The two most recent episodes of #BioUnethical with David Thorstad, Emily Largent, and @GovindPersad were very (very!) good.

Hosts Leah Pierson and Sophie Gibert may be doing reflective discussion better than anyone — outstanding stage setting, questioning, improvising, etc.

https://www.biounethical.com

#bioethics #appliedEthics #Philosophy #medicine #health #biology #economics #law #psychology #epistemology #science #longtermerism #effectiveAltruism #xRisk #existentialRisk

Our latest preprint validates two low-cost global #risk reduction stimuli .

An infographic and a text message improved #antibiotic decisions in ways that could reduce existential risks of #AntimicrobialResistance.

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d2pc4_v1

Oilivia Parlow was a great advisee!

#AMR #xRisk #CogSci #Medicine #Edu #SciComm #GlobalHealth #bioethics #HealthPsychology #HealthEconomics #Pharmacy #CollectiveAction #nudge

75% of clinicians see inappropriate antibiotic prescribing as driven (in part) by delays in processing diagnostic tests or cultures.

This perception was 30% more prevalent in #PrimaryCare than #Hospitals (N = 180).

https://doi.org/10.1071/AH21197

#medicine #AMR #ethics #biology #xRisk

Someone on LinkedIn just criticised me for comparing the trillions dollars deficit Musk just promised if Trump is elected with the cuban missile crisis, because the latter was existential. But we need $7T to handle the climate crisis, it really is the same scale of #xrisk.
https://mapstodon.space/@zoom_earth/113395767797443004

Well that's... interesting. 😏

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/
OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded

"The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed."

#AI #OpenAI #xrisk

Forecasting Research Institute published results today from 2023's adversarial collaboration about AI risk.

Intended to identify key drivers of disagreement and "crux" questions. (q's where there could be wide agreement on risk increase or decrease.)

It was intense, certainly. Hard to agree on cruxes and appear to be worldview differences.
#forecasting #AI #xrisk

https://forecastingresearch.org/news/ai-adversarial-collaboration

It never ceases to annoy me that the people who fear #xrisk from #AGI essentially fear that some very smart #AI will subliminally persuade its creators and controllers to do things that enable it to escape their control and/or gain control over ‘real world' levers of power.

Meanwhile they dismiss the whole idea of current #LLMs having what mimics subtle agendas, grounded in how they have been trained, reinforcing established modes of thought TODAY in harmful ways.

This seems disconnected. 🧵

Would Turing have believed in xrisk, if he knew what we know now? Todd Holloway is expert in industrial-level #systemsAI; Dermot Turing on history of AI, including his uncle. Immodestly, I'd recommend our talk over Musk & Sunak's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9bmWsJSocg

#xrisk #AISafetySummit #AIEthics #AISafety #systemsAI #devOps #systemsEngineering

The real “existential risk” for #AI is the fear of AI vendors that the public may realize no one has built any real artificial intelligence. If that risk manifests, they would lose money and influence. #xrisk #aiEthics

A taxonomy of positions against #AI being an existential risk: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BvFJnyqsJzBCybDSD/taxonomy-of-ai-risk-counterarguments
What do you think? Please reshare!
#airisk #xrisk #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #ml

lol yes but this focus on talking heads diverts attention from the underlying political dynamics, including the need for social movements of resistance
#AI #resistingAI #xrisk

Available now: New "Observers" episode, entitled "AI".

You can watch the normal flat-screen version, or the 360 VR 3D version on the website here:

https://starshipsd.com/observers/ai/

#animation #scifi #aliens #vr #3d #existential #ai #cartoon #intelligence #xrisk

Never forget what the #superintelligence #AIDoomerism #alignment and #xrisk stuff really is about: keeping decisive technology under corporate control.

They are loosing to the opensource sector and they know it. So now the propaganda is set to overdrive, with claims that real Open AI, by the people, for the people, under democratic control and not used to enrich some plutocrat is a world ending risk.

We are coming for your means of production. Be afraid of that.

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

Eight years, one month and twelve days to #Skynet

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5121/date-of-artificial-general-intelligence/

#AI #AGI #xrisk