This progress in building up the AI safety and impacts fields, though remarkable for having taken place in such a short span of time, should not be overstated. Yes, more funding is flowing into the field; but it is still two to three orders of magnitude less than is going into simply making machines smarter. Yes, there is more interest in thinking about the consequences of advances in machine intelligence; but much of this ends up focusing on nearer-term concerns such as lethal autonomous weapons, labor market impacts of automation, cybercrime, privacy, or self-driving cars. These are not
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