{{Blockquote | text=Recruit more EAs from China to join this project there (particularly those with high-level connections in the CCP)}}
I straight up don’t believe this is going to work. Trying to influence the Chinese government into restricting their own access to technology that is of the utmost geopolitical importance seems about as hard as AI alignment to me. I don’t want to say it’s impossible, but it’s close. Without absolute international cooperation on the issue we’re just shifting the problem into countries and research communities that are intransparent to almost all the leading AI alignment researchers right now.
It’s also totally ordinary for talented researchers to move to whatever country supports their research. If you ban AI for stupid reasons, it’s especially unlikely that every other country will follow suit.
{{Blockquote | text=Recruit more EAs from China to join this project there (particularly those with high-level connections in the CCP)}}
I straight up don’t believe this is going to work. Trying to influence the Chinese government into restricting their own access to technology that is of the utmost geopolitical importance seems about as hard as AI alignment to me. I don’t want to say it’s impossible, but it’s close. Without absolute international cooperation on the issue we’re just shifting the problem into countries and research communities that are intransparent to almost all the leading AI alignment researchers right now.
It’s also totally ordinary for talented researchers to move to whatever country supports their research. If you ban AI for stupid reasons, it’s especially unlikely that every other country will follow suit.