Of all the arguments for not slowing down AI development, I still find this one the most plausible.
I can imagine the EU slowing down due to ethical constraints. Possibly Britain and the US.
But China and Russia? Nope. They clearly don’t wanna, and we clearly can’t make them.
We can’t get these countries to not build concentration camps for muslims, not let a madman in North Korea develop intercontinental nukes, have a different madman in Russia threaten us with nukes and bizarre doomsday weapons, and wage a horrific war crime ridden war of aggression on Ukraine—and that is despite the fact that the West is seriously resolute on all these issues, and pushing for them with everything they have got. We’ll likely never know, the evidence is down the drain and what we have is conflicting and would also match a natural cause, but there is still a fair chance that we all just suffered through a fucking pandemic after China applied for research on making bat coronaviruses more infectious for humans, was shot down by the US funding agency’s ethics committee for this obviously being gain of function research that was ethically responsible, especially in a lab with a track record of leaks, and then doing it anyway, and accidentally leaking the damn thing in their country, trying to cover it up, and getting us all infected in the process. We’ve tried banning problematic gene tech in Europe, for fear that it would destabilise ecosystems, lead to farmer dependencies and violate human rights, and all that happened was that China did it instead. I really, really, really do not want a surveillance dictatorship like China to get AGI first, and I see nothing we can do to realistically stop them short of getting there first.
“The” government?
Of all the arguments for not slowing down AI development, I still find this one the most plausible.
I can imagine the EU slowing down due to ethical constraints. Possibly Britain and the US.
But China and Russia? Nope. They clearly don’t wanna, and we clearly can’t make them.
We can’t get these countries to not build concentration camps for muslims, not let a madman in North Korea develop intercontinental nukes, have a different madman in Russia threaten us with nukes and bizarre doomsday weapons, and wage a horrific war crime ridden war of aggression on Ukraine—and that is despite the fact that the West is seriously resolute on all these issues, and pushing for them with everything they have got. We’ll likely never know, the evidence is down the drain and what we have is conflicting and would also match a natural cause, but there is still a fair chance that we all just suffered through a fucking pandemic after China applied for research on making bat coronaviruses more infectious for humans, was shot down by the US funding agency’s ethics committee for this obviously being gain of function research that was ethically responsible, especially in a lab with a track record of leaks, and then doing it anyway, and accidentally leaking the damn thing in their country, trying to cover it up, and getting us all infected in the process. We’ve tried banning problematic gene tech in Europe, for fear that it would destabilise ecosystems, lead to farmer dependencies and violate human rights, and all that happened was that China did it instead. I really, really, really do not want a surveillance dictatorship like China to get AGI first, and I see nothing we can do to realistically stop them short of getting there first.