I don’t understand the mechanism of the double-cross here. How would they get the pro-EA and safety side to trigger the crisis? And why would the safety/EA people, who are trying to make everything more predictable and controllable, be the ones who are purged from influence?
I’m very confused about the events that have been taking place, but one factor that I have very little doubt is that the NSA has acquired access to smartphone operating systems and smartphone microphones throughout the OpenAI building (it’s just one building, and a really important one, so it’s also reasonably likely that it’s also been bugged). Whether they were doing anything with that access is much less clear.
I don’t understand the mechanism of the double-cross here. How would they get the pro-EA and safety side to trigger the crisis? And why would the safety/EA people, who are trying to make everything more predictable and controllable, be the ones who are purged from influence?
One explanation that comes to mind is that AI already offers extremely powerful manipulation capabilities and governments are already racing to acquire these capabilities.
I’m very confused about the events that have been taking place, but one factor that I have very little doubt is that the NSA has acquired access to smartphone operating systems and smartphone microphones throughout the OpenAI building (it’s just one building, and a really important one, so it’s also reasonably likely that it’s also been bugged). Whether they were doing anything with that access is much less clear.
The EAs on the board have national security ties.