I’d like to make clear to anyone reading that you can support the PauseAI movement right now, only because you think it is useful right now. And then in the future, when conditions change, you can choose to stop supporting the PauseAI movement.
AI is changing extremely fast (e.g. technical work was probably our best bet a year ago, I’m less sure now). Supporting a particular tactic/intervention does not commit you to an ideology or team forever!
Putting my EA Forum comment here:
I’d like to make clear to anyone reading that you can support the PauseAI movement right now, only because you think it is useful right now. And then in the future, when conditions change, you can choose to stop supporting the PauseAI movement.
AI is changing extremely fast (e.g. technical work was probably our best bet a year ago, I’m less sure now). Supporting a particular tactic/intervention does not commit you to an ideology or team forever!
While I want people to support PauseAI
Is one of the main points of my post. If you support PauseAI today you may unleash a force which you cannot control tomorrow.
I think it is unrealistic to ask people to internalise that level of ambiguity. This is how EA’s turn themselves into mental pretzels.