I don’t thing all AI regulation harmful, but I think almost all “advocacy” is harmful. Increasing the salience of AI Doom is going to mean making it a partisan issue. For the moment, this means that the left is going to want to regulate AI bias and the right is going to want to build AI faster than China.
I think the correct approach is more akin to secret congress, the idea that bipartisan deals are possible by basically doing things everyone agrees on without publicly broadcasting it.
There is also the possibility of the parties competing over it to avoid looking “soft on AI”, which is of course the ideal.
To the extent that AI X-risk has the potential to become partisan, my general impression is that the more likely split is Yuddite-right vs. technophile-left. Note that it was a Fox News reporter who put the question to the White House Press Secretary following Eliezer’s TIME article, and a Republican (John Kennedy) who talked about X-risk in the Senate hearing in May, while the Blue-Tribe thinkpieces typically take pains to note that they think X-risk is science fiction.
As a perennial nuclear worrier, I should mention that while any partisan split is non-ideal, this one’s probably preferable to the reverse insofar as a near-term nuclear war would mean the culture war ends in Red Tribe victory.
I don’t thing all AI regulation harmful, but I think almost all “advocacy” is harmful. Increasing the salience of AI Doom is going to mean making it a partisan issue. For the moment, this means that the left is going to want to regulate AI bias and the right is going to want to build AI faster than China.
I think the correct approach is more akin to secret congress, the idea that bipartisan deals are possible by basically doing things everyone agrees on without publicly broadcasting it.
There is also the possibility of the parties competing over it to avoid looking “soft on AI”, which is of course the ideal.
To the extent that AI X-risk has the potential to become partisan, my general impression is that the more likely split is Yuddite-right vs. technophile-left. Note that it was a Fox News reporter who put the question to the White House Press Secretary following Eliezer’s TIME article, and a Republican (John Kennedy) who talked about X-risk in the Senate hearing in May, while the Blue-Tribe thinkpieces typically take pains to note that they think X-risk is science fiction.
As a perennial nuclear worrier, I should mention that while any partisan split is non-ideal, this one’s probably preferable to the reverse insofar as a near-term nuclear war would mean the culture war ends in Red Tribe victory.