i) are the kinds of transformative AI that we’re reasonably likely to get in the next 25 years are unalignable?
ii) how plausible are the extreme levels of cooperation Wei Dai wants
iii) how important is career capital/credibility?
I’m perhaps midway between Wei Dai’s view and the median governance view so may be an interesting example. I think we’re ~10% likely to get transformative general AI in the next 20 years, and ~6% likely to get an incorrigible one, and ~5.4% likely to get incorrigible general AI that’s insufficiently philosophically competent. Extreme cooperation seems ~5% likely, and is correlated with having general AI. It would be nice if more people worked on that, or on whatever more-realistic solutions would work for the transformative unsafe AGI scenario, but I’m happy for some double-digit percentage of governance researchers to keep working on less extreme (and more likely) solutions to build credibility.
I would guess three main disagreements are:
i) are the kinds of transformative AI that we’re reasonably likely to get in the next 25 years are unalignable?
ii) how plausible are the extreme levels of cooperation Wei Dai wants
iii) how important is career capital/credibility?
I’m perhaps midway between Wei Dai’s view and the median governance view so may be an interesting example. I think we’re ~10% likely to get transformative general AI in the next 20 years, and ~6% likely to get an incorrigible one, and ~5.4% likely to get incorrigible general AI that’s insufficiently philosophically competent. Extreme cooperation seems ~5% likely, and is correlated with having general AI. It would be nice if more people worked on that, or on whatever more-realistic solutions would work for the transformative unsafe AGI scenario, but I’m happy for some double-digit percentage of governance researchers to keep working on less extreme (and more likely) solutions to build credibility.