I feel like I have to wholeheartedly agree with this section below, because I agree with the claim that international cooperation is way better than racing for even very basic forms of cooperation that don’t involve slowdowns or pauses, and in general I am alarmed at a lot of the nationalist rhetoric that says we should race to deal with threat of China, because as I see it, US companies are the ones pushing the state of the art, and there’s some appetite for China to cooperate on AI, and while I think the evidence for China seriously pausing/slowing down is overstated right now, I think that even without slowing down or pausing that international cooperation is better than international competition on AI safety and progress:
I feel like I have to wholeheartedly agree with this section below, because I agree with the claim that international cooperation is way better than racing for even very basic forms of cooperation that don’t involve slowdowns or pauses, and in general I am alarmed at a lot of the nationalist rhetoric that says we should race to deal with threat of China, because as I see it, US companies are the ones pushing the state of the art, and there’s some appetite for China to cooperate on AI, and while I think the evidence for China seriously pausing/slowing down is overstated right now, I think that even without slowing down or pausing that international cooperation is better than international competition on AI safety and progress:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/omzGEWqQJv6uP7D6k/miles-brundage-resigned-from-openai-and-his-agi-readiness#A_call_for_cooperation_with_China