Parody/analogy aside, a real concern among those that don’t want to slow down AI is that while it was true that dictatorships where unstable, they no longer are. They (and I somewhat) believe ‘If You Want a Picture of the Future, Imagine a Boot Stamping on a Human Face – for Ever’ is the likely outcome if we don’t push through to super AI. That is the AI tools already available are sufficient to forever keep a dictatorship in power once it is setup. So if we pause at this tech level we will steadily see societies become such dictatorships, but never come back.
Consider if a govt insisted that everyone wear an ankle bracelet tracker constantly that recorded everything someone said, + body language, connected to a LLM. There would simply be no possibility to express dissent, and certainly no way to organize any. Xinjiang could be there soon.
If that is the case, then a long pause on AI will mean the final decision on AI if it happened at all would be made by such a society—surely a bad outcome. We simply don’t know how stable or otherwise our current tech level is, and there seems to be no easy way to find out.
Parody/analogy aside, a real concern among those that don’t want to slow down AI is that while it was true that dictatorships where unstable, they no longer are. They (and I somewhat) believe ‘If You Want a Picture of the Future, Imagine a Boot Stamping on a Human Face – for Ever’ is the likely outcome if we don’t push through to super AI. That is the AI tools already available are sufficient to forever keep a dictatorship in power once it is setup. So if we pause at this tech level we will steadily see societies become such dictatorships, but never come back.
Consider if a govt insisted that everyone wear an ankle bracelet tracker constantly that recorded everything someone said, + body language, connected to a LLM. There would simply be no possibility to express dissent, and certainly no way to organize any. Xinjiang could be there soon.
If that is the case, then a long pause on AI will mean the final decision on AI if it happened at all would be made by such a society—surely a bad outcome. We simply don’t know how stable or otherwise our current tech level is, and there seems to be no easy way to find out.