2024-06-27

Toronto AI Safety Meetup
- News
  - Detecting Deception hackathon
  - AIGS Canada whitepaper on Canadian AI policy
    - More emphasis on x-risks than previous whitepapers
    - Discusses AI governance landscape
    - Discusses proposed AI policy in Canada
  - Paper on learning f(x)
  - RAND report on securing model weights
  - OpenAI CTO interview about creative jobs being replaced by AI
- Which jobs will disappear first?
  - Around 50% of Canadians are employed (part or full time)
  - Which jobs are easy to automate?
  - Historically people overestimated robotics progress, underestimated language progress
    - e.g. OpenAI originally started with robotics but later gave up
      - maybe getting back in?
  - Some aspects are more automatable than others
    - Less people can do more stuff
    - Less need for entry level people
      - But entry level people are how senior workers come about
  - Will AI create new jobs?
    - Probably not
  - GPT-4o
    - Looked at demos on OpenAI website
  - When will software engineers be replaced by AI
    - 5 years, 13 years