Yes I think we understand each other. One thing to keep in mind is that different stakeholders in AI are NOT utilitarians, they have local incentives they individually care about. Given the fact that COVID didn’t stop gain-of-function research, this means that getting EVERYONE to care would require a death toll larger than COVID. However, getting someone like CEO of google to care would “only” require a half—a - trillion dollar lawsuit against Microsoft for some issue relating to their AIs.
And I generally expect those—types of warning shots to be pretty likely given how gun-ho the current approach is.
Yes I think we understand each other. One thing to keep in mind is that different stakeholders in AI are NOT utilitarians, they have local incentives they individually care about. Given the fact that COVID didn’t stop gain-of-function research, this means that getting EVERYONE to care would require a death toll larger than COVID. However, getting someone like CEO of google to care would “only” require a half—a - trillion dollar lawsuit against Microsoft for some issue relating to their AIs.
And I generally expect those—types of warning shots to be pretty likely given how gun-ho the current approach is.