Minor suggestion to revise the title to something like “Yes, AI research will be substantially curtailed if a major disaster from AI happens”. Before I read your post, I was pretty sure it was going to be about generic disasters, arguing that e.g. a major climate disaster or nuclear disaster would slow down AI research.
Updated the title. I changed it a couple times but I didn’t want it to have too many words.
I think if a major disaster was caused by some unique, sci-fi kind of technological development (not nuclear, that’s already established) that would also lead to small scale increase in concern about AI risk as well, but I’m not sure about that.
Nice post—seems reasonable.
Minor suggestion to revise the title to something like “Yes, AI research will be substantially curtailed if a major disaster from AI happens”. Before I read your post, I was pretty sure it was going to be about generic disasters, arguing that e.g. a major climate disaster or nuclear disaster would slow down AI research.
Updated the title. I changed it a couple times but I didn’t want it to have too many words.
I think if a major disaster was caused by some unique, sci-fi kind of technological development (not nuclear, that’s already established) that would also lead to small scale increase in concern about AI risk as well, but I’m not sure about that.