I am quite sure that in a world where friendly tool AIs were provably easy to build and everyone was gonna build them instead of something else and the idea even made sense, basically a world where we know we don’t need to be concerned about x-risk, Yudkowsky would be far less “relaxed” about AI+power. In absolute terms maybe he’s just as concerned as everyone else about AI+power, but that concern is swamped by an even larger concern.
Maybe I shouldn’t have used EY as an example, I don’t have any special insight into how he thinks about AI and power imbalances. Generally I get the vibe from his public statements that he’s pretty libertarian and thinks pros outweigh cons on most technology which he thinks isn’t x-risky. I think I’m moderately confident that hes more relaxed about, say, misinformation or big tech platforms dominance than (say) Melanie Mitchell but maybe i’m wrong about that.
I am quite sure that in a world where friendly tool AIs were provably easy to build and everyone was gonna build them instead of something else and the idea even made sense, basically a world where we know we don’t need to be concerned about x-risk, Yudkowsky would be far less “relaxed” about AI+power. In absolute terms maybe he’s just as concerned as everyone else about AI+power, but that concern is swamped by an even larger concern.
Maybe I shouldn’t have used EY as an example, I don’t have any special insight into how he thinks about AI and power imbalances. Generally I get the vibe from his public statements that he’s pretty libertarian and thinks pros outweigh cons on most technology which he thinks isn’t x-risky. I think I’m moderately confident that hes more relaxed about, say, misinformation or big tech platforms dominance than (say) Melanie Mitchell but maybe i’m wrong about that.