Sure, good point. But it’s far from obvious that the best interventions long-term-wise are the best short-term-wise, and I believe people are mostly just thinking about short-term stuff. I’d feel better if people talked about training data or whatever rather than just “protect any interests that warrant protecting” and “make interventions and concessions for model welfare.”
(As far as I remember, nobody’s published a list of how short-term AI welfare stuff can boost long-term AI welfare stuff that includes the training-data thing you mention. This shows that people aren’t thinking about long-term stuff. Actually there hasn’t been much published on short-term stuff either, so: shrug.)
Sure, good point. But it’s far from obvious that the best interventions long-term-wise are the best short-term-wise, and I believe people are mostly just thinking about short-term stuff. I’d feel better if people talked about training data or whatever rather than just “protect any interests that warrant protecting” and “make interventions and concessions for model welfare.”
(As far as I remember, nobody’s published a list of how short-term AI welfare stuff can boost long-term AI welfare stuff that includes the training-data thing you mention.
This shows that people aren’t thinking about long-term stuff.Actually there hasn’t been much published on short-term stuff either, so: shrug.)