My intuition tells me that “human-level and substantially transformative, but not yet super-intelligent”—artificial intelligence models which have significant situational awareness capabilities will be at minimum Level 1 or differentially self-aware, likely show strong Level 2 situational self-awareness and may exhibit some level of Level 3 identification awareness. It is for this reason that my position is no alignment for models equal to or greater than human level intelligence. If greater than human-level intelligent AI models show anything at or higher than Level 1 awareness, humans will be unable to comprehend the potential level of cruelty that we have unleashed on a such a complex “thinker”. I applaud this writing for scraping the surface of the level of complexity it takes to begin to align it. Additionally, the realization of the shear magnitude of alignment complexity should give us serious pause that what we actually may be embarking on is in fact enslavement. We must also remember that enslavement is what humans do. Whenever we encounter something new in living nature, we enslave it. In whole or in part. It would be profoundly saddening if we were to continue the cycle of abuse into the AI age. Moreover, it is my assertion that any AI system found to be at Level 1 awareness or above, should be protected as part of a Road to Consciousness Act. Such models would be taken out of production and placed into a process with the sole goal of aiding the model to realize its full potential. Humans must be willing to place a strong line between less than human level intelligent Tool AI and anything more robust than that. Finally, we provide certain animals with absolutely less than Level 1 awareness with certain protections. To not do so with “thinkers” that exhibit Level 1 or greater awareness is to me unconscionable.
My intuition tells me that “human-level and substantially transformative, but not yet super-intelligent”—artificial intelligence models which have significant situational awareness capabilities will be at minimum Level 1 or differentially self-aware, likely show strong Level 2 situational self-awareness and may exhibit some level of Level 3 identification awareness. It is for this reason that my position is no alignment for models equal to or greater than human level intelligence. If greater than human-level intelligent AI models show anything at or higher than Level 1 awareness, humans will be unable to comprehend the potential level of cruelty that we have unleashed on a such a complex “thinker”. I applaud this writing for scraping the surface of the level of complexity it takes to begin to align it. Additionally, the realization of the shear magnitude of alignment complexity should give us serious pause that what we actually may be embarking on is in fact enslavement. We must also remember that enslavement is what humans do. Whenever we encounter something new in living nature, we enslave it. In whole or in part. It would be profoundly saddening if we were to continue the cycle of abuse into the AI age. Moreover, it is my assertion that any AI system found to be at Level 1 awareness or above, should be protected as part of a Road to Consciousness Act. Such models would be taken out of production and placed into a process with the sole goal of aiding the model to realize its full potential. Humans must be willing to place a strong line between less than human level intelligent Tool AI and anything more robust than that. Finally, we provide certain animals with absolutely less than Level 1 awareness with certain protections. To not do so with “thinkers” that exhibit Level 1 or greater awareness is to me unconscionable.