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33 papers
Death in Genetic Algorithms
Micah Burkhardt, Roman V. Yampolskiy
Death has long been overlooked in evolutionary algorithms. Recent research has shown that death (when applied properly) can benefit the overall fitness of a population and can outp…
Impossibility Results in AI: A Survey
Mario Brcic, Roman V. Yampolskiy
An impossibility theorem demonstrates that a particular problem or set of problems cannot be solved as described in the claim. Such theorems put limits on what is possible to do co…
AI Risk Skepticism
Roman V. Yampolskiy
In this work, we survey skepticism regarding AI risk and show parallels with other types of scientific skepticism. We start by classifying different types of AI Risk skepticism and…
Transdisciplinary AI Observatory -- Retrospective Analyses and Future-Oriented Contradistinctions
Nadisha-Marie Aliman, Leon Kester, Roman Yampolskiy
In the last years, AI safety gained international recognition in the light of heterogeneous safety-critical and ethical issues that risk overshadowing the broad beneficial impacts…
Chess as a Testing Grounds for the Oracle Approach to AI Safety
James D. Miller, Roman Yampolskiy, Olle Haggstrom +1
To reduce the danger of powerful super-intelligent AIs, we might make the first such AIs oracles that can only send and receive messages. This paper proposes a possibly practical m…
On Controllability of AI
Roman V. Yampolskiy
Invention of artificial general intelligence is predicted to cause a shift in the trajectory of human civilization. In order to reap the benefits and avoid pitfalls of such powerfu…
Human AGI
Roman V. Yampolskiy
Terms Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Human-Level Artificial Intelligence (HLAI) have been used interchangeably to refer to the Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
An AGI Modifying Its Utility Function in Violation of the Orthogonality Thesis
James D. Miller, Roman Yampolskiy, Olle Häggström
An artificial general intelligence (AGI) might have an instrumental drive to modify its utility function to improve its ability to cooperate, bargain, promise, threaten, and resist…
Classification Schemas for Artificial Intelligence Failures
Peter J. Scott, Roman V. Yampolskiy
In this paper we examine historical failures of artificial intelligence (AI) and propose a classification scheme for categorizing future failures. By doing so we hope that (a) the…
The sounds of science: a symphony for many instruments and voices
Gerianne Alexander, Roland E. Allen, Anthony Atala +15
This paper is a celebration of the frontiers of science. Goodenough, the maestro who transformed energy usage and technology through the invention of the lithium ion battery, opens…
Unexplainability and Incomprehensibility of Artificial Intelligence
Roman V. Yampolskiy
Explainability and comprehensibility of AI are important requirements for intelligent systems deployed in real-world domains. Users want and frequently need to understand how decis…
Personal Universes: A Solution to the Multi-Agent Value Alignment Problem
Roman V. Yampolskiy
AI Safety researchers attempting to align values of highly capable intelligent systems with those of humanity face a number of challenges including personal value extraction, multi…
Emergence of Addictive Behaviors in Reinforcement Learning Agents
Vahid Behzadan, Roman V. Yampolskiy, Arslan Munir
This paper presents a novel approach to the technical analysis of wireheading in intelligent agents. Inspired by the natural analogues of wireheading and their prevalent manifestat…
Uploading Brain into Computer: Whom to Upload First?
Yana B. Feygin, Kelly Morris, Roman V. Yampolskiy
The final goal of the intelligence augmentation process is a complete merger of biological brains and computers allowing for integration and mutual enhancement between computer's s…
Optical Illusions Images Dataset
Robert Max Williams, Roman V. Yampolskiy
Human vision is capable of performing many tasks not optimized for in its long evolution. Reading text and identifying artificial objects such as road signs are both tasks that mam…
Why We Do Not Evolve Software? Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms
Roman V. Yampolskiy
In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art results in evolutionary computation and observe that we do not evolve non trivial software from scratch and with no human intervention…
Human Indignity: From Legal AI Personhood to Selfish Memes
Roman V. Yampolskiy
It is possible to rely on current corporate law to grant legal personhood to Artificially Intelligent (AI) agents. In this paper, after introducing pathways to AI personhood, we an…
Building Safer AGI by introducing Artificial Stupidity
Michaël Trazzi, Roman V. Yampolskiy
Artificial Intelligence (AI) achieved super-human performance in a broad variety of domains. We say that an AI is made Artificially Stupid on a task when some limitations are delib…
A Psychopathological Approach to Safety Engineering in AI and AGI
Vahid Behzadan, Arslan Munir, Roman V. Yampolskiy
The complexity of dynamics in AI techniques is already approaching that of complex adaptive systems, thus curtailing the feasibility of formal controllability and reachability anal…
Detecting Qualia in Natural and Artificial Agents
Roman V. Yampolskiy
The Hard Problem of consciousness has been dismissed as an illusion. By showing that computers are capable of experiencing, we show that they are at least rudimentarily conscious w…
Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence Containment
James Babcock, Janos Kramar, Roman V. Yampolskiy
With almost daily improvements in capabilities of artificial intelligence it is more important than ever to develop safety software for use by the AI research community. Building o…
Evaluating race and sex diversity in the world's largest companies using deep neural networks
Konstantin Chekanov, Polina Mamoshina, Roman V. Yampolskiy +3
Diversity is one of the fundamental properties for the survival of species, populations, and organizations. Recent advances in deep learning allow for the rapid and automatic asses…
The Singularity May Be Near
Roman V. Yampolskiy
Toby Walsh in 'The Singularity May Never Be Near' gives six arguments to support his point of view that technological singularity may happen but that it is unlikely. In this paper,…
Artificial Intelligence Safety and Cybersecurity: a Timeline of AI Failures
Roman V. Yampolskiy, M. S. Spellchecker
In this work, we present and analyze reported failures of artificially intelligent systems and extrapolate our analysis to future AIs. We suggest that both the frequency and the se…