alt Hacker News> We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.
This is quite vague to me, what exactly do you mean?
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'Regulatory Capture' if we were cynical.
I think a lot of these guys mean it though.
'The Fear' - is not some magic intelligence will come alive and be Skynet, these people are ridiculous.
People will use the compute power to do nasty things, we'll be overwhelmed with bots, regular companies will use them for dark patterns, political actors will use them to cheat.
It will be 100% humans using it for bad stuff, and in not very novel ways.
It means only those vetted will be allowed to use frontier models (i.e. let's pace ourselves and not share the frontier broadly)
It means that they request the structures needed to navigate the event horizon of recursive self improvement be put into place. Probably: International agreements, verifiability of an AI pause on the level of graphic cards as well as through physical inspections of datacenters. Like it's done with nuclear energy.