But honestly, with the AI risk statement signed by so many prominent scientists and engineer,
Well, yes, the statement says “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks”, not anything about brakes on capabilities research, or privileging this risk over others. This is not at all the cautionista stance. Not even watered down. It is only to raise the public profile of this particular x-risk existence.
I don’t get you. You are upset about people saying that we should scale back capabilities research, while at the same time holding the opinion that we are not doomed because we won’t get to ASI? You are worried that people might try to stop the technology that in your opinion may not happen?? The technology that if does indeed happen, you agree that “If [ASI] us wants us gone, we would be gone”?!?
Said this, maybe you are misunderstanding the people that are calling for a stop. I don’t think anyone is proposing to stop narrow AI capabilities. Just the dangerous kind of general intelligence “larger than GPT-4”. Self-driving cars good, automated general decision-making bad.
I’d also still like to hear your opinion on my counter arguments on the object level.
Well, yes, the statement says “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks”, not anything about brakes on capabilities research, or privileging this risk over others. This is not at all the cautionista stance. Not even watered down. It is only to raise the public profile of this particular x-risk existence.
I don’t get you. You are upset about people saying that we should scale back capabilities research, while at the same time holding the opinion that we are not doomed because we won’t get to ASI? You are worried that people might try to stop the technology that in your opinion may not happen?? The technology that if does indeed happen, you agree that “If [ASI] us wants us gone, we would be gone”?!?
Said this, maybe you are misunderstanding the people that are calling for a stop. I don’t think anyone is proposing to stop narrow AI capabilities. Just the dangerous kind of general intelligence “larger than GPT-4”. Self-driving cars good, automated general decision-making bad.
I’d also still like to hear your opinion on my counter arguments on the object level.