alt Hacker NewsI firmly believe that this is just the public-facing story here.
Stopping AI development and research, even slowing it, would be a disaster for the SOTA companies and their first-mover advantage.
There’s almost no way to coordinate this across the world. Zero chance that everyone stops. We can’t even agree to coordinate on weapons tech that’s decades old with zero “everyday joe” impact.
There's a non-zero possibility that multiple concerns can be seemingly contradictory and simultaneously true, here.
Bad actors can be running the AI companies. Bad actors can also try to do good things. Good things can come from bad things. Bad things can come from good things. All of that's happening right now.
- It's very likely that we are not going to solve this complex crisis (compelling and harmful/deadly (still on target for 2030 AGI) AI Tech development) issues if we avoid trying to solve the challenge of building consensus across humanity around what kind of technology is too dangerous to uncontrollably develop plus roll out continuously
- The companies will be fine. Life matters more than business. I urge focusing on the life angle: regulation, political messaging, consensus building, looking for the best in humanity, protecting intelligent life.