and where [in the government] close to literally zero people understand how the systems work or the arguments for existential risks here.
Just want to flag that I’m pretty sure this isn’t true anymore. At least a few important people in the US government (and possibly many) have now taken this course . I am still in progress on my technical review of the course for AIGS Canada, but my take so far is that it provides a good education on relevant aspects of AI for a non-technical audience and also focuses quite a bit on AI existential risk issues.
(I know this only one point out of many you made but I wanted to respond to it when I spotted it and had time.)
Yep, it seems to good to me to respond to just one point that you disagreed with, definitely positive to do so relative to responding to none :)
I genuinely have uncertainty here, I know there were a bunch of folks at CSET who understood some of the args, I’m not sure whether/what roles they have in Government, I think of many of them as being in “policy think tanks” that are outside of government. Matheny was in the White House for a while but now he runs RAND; if he were still there I would be wrong and there would be at least one person who I believe groks the arguments and how a neural net works.
Most of my current probability mass is on literally 100% of elected officials do not understand the arguments or how a neural net works, but I acknowledge that they’re not the only people involved in passing legislation/regulation.
Just want to flag that I’m pretty sure this isn’t true anymore. At least a few important people in the US government (and possibly many) have now taken this course . I am still in progress on my technical review of the course for AIGS Canada, but my take so far is that it provides a good education on relevant aspects of AI for a non-technical audience and also focuses quite a bit on AI existential risk issues.
(I know this only one point out of many you made but I wanted to respond to it when I spotted it and had time.)
Yep, it seems to good to me to respond to just one point that you disagreed with, definitely positive to do so relative to responding to none :)
I genuinely have uncertainty here, I know there were a bunch of folks at CSET who understood some of the args, I’m not sure whether/what roles they have in Government, I think of many of them as being in “policy think tanks” that are outside of government. Matheny was in the White House for a while but now he runs RAND; if he were still there I would be wrong and there would be at least one person who I believe groks the arguments and how a neural net works.
Most of my current probability mass is on literally 100% of elected officials do not understand the arguments or how a neural net works, but I acknowledge that they’re not the only people involved in passing legislation/regulation.