38.6 - Joel Lehman on Positive Visions of AI

Typically this podcast talks about how to avert destruction from AI. But what would it take to ensure AI promotes human flourishing as well as it can? Is alignment to individuals enough, and if not, where do we go form here? In this episode, I talk with Joel Lehman about these questions. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/axrpodcast Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/axrpodcast Transcript: https://axrp.net/episode/2025/01/24/episode-38_6-joel-lehman-positive-visions-of-ai.html FAR.AI: https://far.ai/ FAR.AI on X (aka Twitter): https://x.com/farairesearch FAR.AI on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FARAIResearch The Alignment Workshop: https://www.alignment-workshop.com/   Topics we discuss, and timestamps:  01:12 - Why aligned AI might not be enough 04:05 - Positive visions of AI 08:27 - Improving recommendation systems   Links: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objective/dp/3319155237 We Need Positive Visions of AI Grounded in Wellbeing: https://thegradientpub.substack.com/p/beneficial-ai-wellbeing-lehman-ngo Machine Love: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09248 AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17713   Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com