Rational Animations

Rational Animations is a fully remote international team of about 40 artists, writers, and tech dorks collaborating together. We are fans of dogs, stories, animation, learning, and doing good.

With our YouTube channel, we aim to promote good-thinking, altruistic causes and help ensure humanity’s future goes well. Among these topics, we are particularly focused on AI Safety and AI Alignment: making sure present and future AI Systems are aligned with human values and don’t cause our extinction.

We also offer animation production and writing services. Don’t hesitate to contact us!

Can we just…Pause AI?

From Rational Animations. If superintelligent AI could cause human extinction, why don’t we simply stop building ever more advanced AI? This proposal is widely debated. In this video, we outline the main arguments, practical difficulties, and proposed responses. ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀SOURCES & READINGS▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ PauseAI proposal: https://pauseai.info/proposal OpenAI protest: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-02-13/ai-protest-at-openai-hq-in-san-francisco-focuses-on-military-work Anthropic CEO on AI taking over coding: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/anthropic-ceo-predicts-ai-will-take-over-coding-in-12-months/488533…

AI could be a tool for global control (plus other major AI risks)

From Rational Animations. This time, we talk about AI risks beyond our usual focus on rogue AIs: malicious use and accidents. In particular, we look at how AI could undermine democracy, enable automated cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, lower barriers for biological and chemical misuse, concentrate power in a few governments or corporations, and cause large-scale…

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Can we just…Pause AI?

AI could be a tool for global control (plus other major AI risks)