Overall, I like the post’s emphasis on taking personal action, conditional on technical alignment being unlikely at the current rate of general-purpose AI development or impossible for fundamental reasons.
Two thoughts that I am happy to elaborate on:
Israel and Iran clearly are in an adversarial relationship. We are not in one yet for the most part with AGI researchers and scaleable ML developers. Let’s start by seeking to understand their perspectives, have one-on-one conversations, and find ways to communicate concerns and questions they will need to answer to (under legitimate public pressure).
Any “intervention” you can come up with towards Iranian nuclear researchers is probably liable to make things better and not worse.
This seems to suggest ‘try any strategy that might stick for containing AGI development’. I would disagree with this framing. A lot of ways to go about this will be indistinguishable from our community lashing out at another community for random/less noble reasons. You might not have meant it that way though – I admire the way you went about holding conversations in the EleutherAI #ai-alignment Discord Slack.
Overall, I like the post’s emphasis on taking personal action, conditional on technical alignment being unlikely at the current rate of general-purpose AI development or impossible for fundamental reasons.
Two thoughts that I am happy to elaborate on:
Israel and Iran clearly are in an adversarial relationship. We are not in one yet for the most part with AGI researchers and scaleable ML developers. Let’s start by seeking to understand their perspectives, have one-on-one conversations, and find ways to communicate concerns and questions they will need to answer to (under legitimate public pressure).
This seems to suggest ‘try any strategy that might stick for containing AGI development’. I would disagree with this framing. A lot of ways to go about this will be indistinguishable from our community lashing out at another community for random/less noble reasons. You might not have meant it that way though – I admire the way you went about holding conversations in the EleutherAI #ai-alignment Discord Slack.