The downvotes are excessive, the post is provoking, but interesting.
I think you will not even need to “push the fat man”. The development on an AGI will be slow and gradual (as any other major technology) and there will be incidents along the way (e.g. an AGI chatbot harassing someone). Those incidents will periodically mandate new regulations, so that measurements to tackle real AGI related dangers will be enacted, similarly to what happens in the nuclear energy sector. They will not be perfect, but there will be regulations.
The tricky part is that not all nations will set similar safety level, in fact some may encourage the development of unsafe, but high reward, AGI. So overall it looks like “pushing the fat man” will not even work that well.
The downvotes are excessive, the post is provoking, but interesting.
I think you will not even need to “push the fat man”. The development on an AGI will be slow and gradual (as any other major technology) and there will be incidents along the way (e.g. an AGI chatbot harassing someone). Those incidents will periodically mandate new regulations, so that measurements to tackle real AGI related dangers will be enacted, similarly to what happens in the nuclear energy sector. They will not be perfect, but there will be regulations.
The tricky part is that not all nations will set similar safety level, in fact some may encourage the development of unsafe, but high reward, AGI. So overall it looks like “pushing the fat man” will not even work that well.