Have people hashed out the cost/benefit on getting government involved recently? I think I’m above average in preferring to have AI safety work done within corporations/nonprofits.
One way government attention could end well, though, is if someone(s) who’s actually able to discriminate useful research from chaff (either off-topic or genuinely vapid) is in charge of a decent-sized pool of government grant money. Lack of guidance in a funding agency seems like the sort of barrier one runs into whem trying to push on the growth of a field. One of the useful roles of a political-facing organization would be to keep track of potential opportunities to recommend people for key positions.
I still lean on the “government is probably bad for this” direction, but it makes sense for Kissinger in particular to come at it from a “use government as your hammer” frame.
Can you think of an AI catalyzed x risk where technologies that worsen risk are likely to succeed in the market, while technologies that reduce it are unlikely to succeed in the market due to coordination or capital problems?
If the answer is yes, you need either the government or philanthropy.
Have people hashed out the cost/benefit on getting government involved recently? I think I’m above average in preferring to have AI safety work done within corporations/nonprofits.
One way government attention could end well, though, is if someone(s) who’s actually able to discriminate useful research from chaff (either off-topic or genuinely vapid) is in charge of a decent-sized pool of government grant money. Lack of guidance in a funding agency seems like the sort of barrier one runs into whem trying to push on the growth of a field. One of the useful roles of a political-facing organization would be to keep track of potential opportunities to recommend people for key positions.
I still lean on the “government is probably bad for this” direction, but it makes sense for Kissinger in particular to come at it from a “use government as your hammer” frame.
Can you think of an AI catalyzed x risk where technologies that worsen risk are likely to succeed in the market, while technologies that reduce it are unlikely to succeed in the market due to coordination or capital problems?
If the answer is yes, you need either the government or philanthropy.