I really love this. It is critically important work for the next four years. I think my biggest question is: when talking with the people currently in charge, how do you persuade them to make the AI Manhattan Project into something that advances AI Safety more than AI capabilities? I think you gave a good hint when you say,
But true American AI supremacy requires not just being first, but being first to build AGI that remains reliably under American control and aligned with American interests. An unaligned AGI would threaten American sovereignty
but i worry there’s a substantial track record in both government and private sector that efforts motivated by once concern can be redirected to other efforts. You might have congressional reps who really believe in AI safety, but create and fund an AGI Manhattan Project that ends up advancing capabilities relatively more just because the guy they appoint to lead it turns out to be more of a hawk than they expected.
I really love this. It is critically important work for the next four years. I think my biggest question is: when talking with the people currently in charge, how do you persuade them to make the AI Manhattan Project into something that advances AI Safety more than AI capabilities? I think you gave a good hint when you say,
but i worry there’s a substantial track record in both government and private sector that efforts motivated by once concern can be redirected to other efforts. You might have congressional reps who really believe in AI safety, but create and fund an AGI Manhattan Project that ends up advancing capabilities relatively more just because the guy they appoint to lead it turns out to be more of a hawk than they expected.