Public attention is rare and safety measures are even more rare unless there’s real world damage. This is a known pattern in engineering, product design and project planning so I fear there will be little public attention and even less legislation until someone gets hurt by AI. That could take the form of a hot coffee type incident or it could be a Chernobyl type incident. The threshold won’t be discussing Eliezer’s point of view, we’ve been doing that for a long time, but losing sleep over Eliezer’s point of view. I appreciate in the article Yudkowsky’s use of the think-of-the-children stance which has a great track record for sparking legislation.
Public attention is rare and safety measures are even more rare unless there’s real world damage. This is a known pattern in engineering, product design and project planning so I fear there will be little public attention and even less legislation until someone gets hurt by AI. That could take the form of a hot coffee type incident or it could be a Chernobyl type incident. The threshold won’t be discussing Eliezer’s point of view, we’ve been doing that for a long time, but losing sleep over Eliezer’s point of view. I appreciate in the article Yudkowsky’s use of the think-of-the-children stance which has a great track record for sparking legislation.