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====== AI Vignettes Project ======

// Published 12 October, 2021; last updated 06 August, 2022 //



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<p>The <strong>AI Vignettes Project</strong> is an ongoing effort to write concrete plausible future histories of AI development and its social impacts.</p>
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===== Details =====


==== Purposes ====


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<p>We hope to:</p>
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<li><div class="li">Check that abstract views about the future of AI have plausible concrete instantiations. (Especially, hypothesized extinction scenarios, and proposed safe scenarios.)</div></li>
<li><div class="li">Develop better intuitions about possible scenarios by thinking through them concretely.</div></li>
<li><div class="li">Notice recurring themes in concrete stories, that may be worth thinking about more broadly.</div></li>
<li><div class="li">Fill out the space of plausible feasible scenarios with concrete illustrations, to decrease bias in thinking about the future.</div></li>
<li><div class="li">Keep a collection of AI vignettes for others to use, in the above or other ways.</div></li>
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==== Methods ====


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<p>Our current intended method is:</p>
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<li><div class="li">Write draft vignettes, with no particular systematic method for choosing an unbiased selection of scenarios</div></li>
<li><div class="li">Request comments on their realism</div></li>
<li><div class="li">Modify according to comments</div></li>
<li><div class="li">Repeat 2-3 until realism critiques subside</div></li>
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==== Work so far ====


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<p>AI Impacts has run two small workshops where participants wrote AI vignettes.</p>
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==== Vignette collection ====


A subset of vignettes arising from this project can be found among [[featured_articles:fiction_relevant_to_ai_futurism|fiction relevant to AI futurism]].
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