I believe that the general consensus is that it is impossible to totally pause AI development due to Molochian concerns: I am like you, and if I could press a button to send us back to 2017 levels of AI technology, I would.
However, in the current situation, the intelligent people as you noted have found ways to convince themselves to take on a very high risk of humanity and the general coordination of humanity is not enough to convince them otherwise.
There have some positive updates but it seems that we have not been in a world of general sanity and safety at this scale.
I have taken solace in the morbid amusement that many of the “powers that be” may indeed be dying with us, but they are quite blind.
“Humanity: extinct due to hyperbolic discounting behavior.”
I believe that the general consensus is that it is impossible to totally pause AI development due to Molochian concerns: I am like you, and if I could press a button to send us back to 2017 levels of AI technology, I would.
However, in the current situation, the intelligent people as you noted have found ways to convince themselves to take on a very high risk of humanity and the general coordination of humanity is not enough to convince them otherwise.
There have some positive updates but it seems that we have not been in a world of general sanity and safety at this scale.
I have taken solace in the morbid amusement that many of the “powers that be” may indeed be dying with us, but they are quite blind.
“Humanity: extinct due to hyperbolic discounting behavior.”