I’m especially interested in the analogy between AI alignment and democracy.
This is indeed a productive analogy. Sadly, on this forum, this analogy is used in 99% of the cases to generate AI alignment failure mode stories, whereas I am much more interested in using it to generate useful ideas about AI safety mechanisms.
You may be interested in my recent paper ‘demanding and designing’, just announced here, where I show how to do the useful idea generating thing. I transfer some insights about aligning powerful governments and companies to the problem of aligning powerful AI.
This is indeed a productive analogy. Sadly, on this forum, this analogy is used in 99% of the cases to generate AI alignment failure mode stories, whereas I am much more interested in using it to generate useful ideas about AI safety mechanisms.
You may be interested in my recent paper ‘demanding and designing’, just announced here, where I show how to do the useful idea generating thing. I transfer some insights about aligning powerful governments and companies to the problem of aligning powerful AI.