Delay it for a few years, sure. Maybe. If you magically convince our idiotic governments of a complex technical fact that doesn’t fit the prevailing political narratives.
But if there are some people who are convinced they have a magic alignment solution…
Someone is likely to run some sort of AI sooner or later. Unless some massive effort to restrict access to computers or something.
Well then, imagine a hypothetical in which the world succeeds at a massive effort to restrict access to compute. That would be a primarily social challenge, to convince the relatively few people at the top to take the risk seriously enough to do that, and then you’ve actually got a pretty permanent solution...
Is it primarily a social challenge? Humanity now relies relatively heavily on quick and easy communications, CAD[1], computer-aided data processing for e.g. mineral prospecting, etc, etc.
(One could argue that we got along without this in the early-to-mid 1900s, but at the same time we now have significantly more people. Ditto, it wasn’t exactly sustainable.)
Delay it for a few years, sure. Maybe. If you magically convince our idiotic governments of a complex technical fact that doesn’t fit the prevailing political narratives.
But if there are some people who are convinced they have a magic alignment solution…
Someone is likely to run some sort of AI sooner or later. Unless some massive effort to restrict access to computers or something.
Well then, imagine a hypothetical in which the world succeeds at a massive effort to restrict access to compute. That would be a primarily social challenge, to convince the relatively few people at the top to take the risk seriously enough to do that, and then you’ve actually got a pretty permanent solution...
Is it primarily a social challenge? Humanity now relies relatively heavily on quick and easy communications, CAD[1], computer-aided data processing for e.g. mineral prospecting, etc, etc.
(One could argue that we got along without this in the early-to-mid 1900s, but at the same time we now have significantly more people. Ditto, it wasn’t exactly sustainable.)
Computer-aided design