Commentary

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Michael Timothy Bennett

The Conversation, June 2023

I respond to some of the fear mongering about AGI, pointing out how some of the more catastrophic scenarios are more mysticism than science, and that there exist financial incentives to foment panic.

Michael Timothy Bennett

The Conversation, April 2023

I discuss the implications of my research published at the 16th Annual Conference on Artificial General Intelligence.

Michael Timothy Bennett and Sean Welsh

Quillette, January 2022

We respond to a 2018 article by Feng Xiang, in which he argues that AI will lead to centrally planned economies. We argue that intelligence does not obviate the need for exploration (referring the exploration / exploitation tradeoff in reinforcement learning), and so distributed control (liberalism and capitalism) remains the better model for society.