I wish I knew how to have a simple, high-content, low-politics conversation on the subject.
This is about politics. The censorship of an idea related to a future dictator implementing some policy is obviously about politics.
You tell people to take friendly AI serious. You tell people that we need friendly AI to marshal our future galactic civilisation. People take it serious. Now the only organisation working on this is the SIAI. Therefore the SIAI is currently in direct causal control of our collective future. So why do you wonder people care about censorship and transparency? People already care about what the U.S. is doing and demand transparency. Which is ludicrous in comparison to the power of a ruling superhuman artificial intelligence that implements what the SIAI came up with as the seed for its friendliness.
If you really think that the SIAI has any importance and could possible achieve to influence or implement the safeguards for some AGI project, then everything the SIAI does is obviously very important to everyone concerned (everyone indeed).
This is about politics. The censorship of an idea related to a future dictator implementing some policy is obviously about politics.
You tell people to take friendly AI serious. You tell people that we need friendly AI to marshal our future galactic civilisation. People take it serious. Now the only organisation working on this is the SIAI. Therefore the SIAI is currently in direct causal control of our collective future. So why do you wonder people care about censorship and transparency? People already care about what the U.S. is doing and demand transparency. Which is ludicrous in comparison to the power of a ruling superhuman artificial intelligence that implements what the SIAI came up with as the seed for its friendliness.
If you really think that the SIAI has any importance and could possible achieve to influence or implement the safeguards for some AGI project, then everything the SIAI does is obviously very important to everyone concerned (everyone indeed).
What? No way! The organisation seems very unlikely to produce machine intelligence to me—due to all the other vastly-better funded players.