Intelligence is not Enough
Calling for interdisciplinary collaboration in AI Safety isn’t just noble, it’s borderline desperate.
Maybe it’s not just wishful thinking. Perhaps it’s the collective whisper of a species racing toward the unknown without a seatbelt or a map. We’ve got the brains: AI scientists, philosophers, lawyers, anthropologists … the whole intellectual buffet.
What we need now is coordination, not competition.
Wisdom, not just intelligence.
This isn’t sci-fi paranoia. It’s overdue responsibility. The clock’s ticking, and hope alone won’t stop the countdown.
Camus once said,
“In an unfree world, rebellion is the only freedom.”
Currently, insisting on safe and ethical AI is a form of rebellion. So let’s keep pushing. Hope with a strategy still beats fear with a budget.
Here are some interdisciplinary AI safety centers and major reports/papers:
- Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) — Cambridge
AI, philosophy, economics, policy; existential risk, AI governance (futureoflife.org, en.wikipedia.org, futureofhumanityinstitute.org) (https://www.cser.ac.uk/)
- Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) — Cambridge
CS, philosophy, social science, ethics; AI safety, transparency, digital afterlife (https://www.lcfi.ac.uk/)
- Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) — Oxford (2005–2024)
Philosophy, CS, math, economics; alignment, forecasting, existential risk (https://www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org/)
- Center for AI Safety (CAIS) — San Francisco, US (est. 2022)
Technical safety, ethics, policy; open letters on extinction risk (https://safe.ai/)
- Future of Life Institute (FLI)
Existential-risk grants, advocacy, technical/ethical AI; Asilomar principle (https://futureoflife.org/ )
- ARCHES: AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety — Critch & Krueger, 2020
Technical–societal roadmap linking ML research to existential safety (https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04948 )
- Managing extreme AI risks vs rapid progress — Bengio et al., 2023
Technical & governance frameworks with multidisciplinary author list (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17688)
- Taking control: Policies to address extinction risks from advanced AI — Miotti & Wasil, 2023
Governance proposals: MAGIC, global compute cap, safety gating (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20563)
- Bridging Today and the Future of Humanity: AI Safety in 2024 and Beyond — Han, 2024
Outlook framing societal roadmaps and AI safety horizon (https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18114)
This might be of interest:
You can read an excerpt from the book “Critical Thinking is Your Superpower” here:
