I’d like to ask a few questions about slowing down AGI as they may turn out to be cruxes for me.
How popular/unpopular is AI slowdown? Ideally, we’d get AI slowdown/AI progress/Neutral as choices in a poll. I also ideally would like different framings of the problem, to test how well frames affect people’s choices. But I do want at least a poll on how popular/unpopular AI slowdown is.
How much does the government want AI to be slowed down? Is Trevor’s story about the US government not willing to countenance AI slowdown correct, and instead speed it up the norm in interacting with the government?
How much will AI companies lobby against AI slowdown? Because if this is a repeat of the fossil fuel situation where AI is viewed by the public as extremely good, I probably would not support too much object work in AI governance, and instead go meta. In other words, I’d be doing more meta things. But if AI companies support AI slowdown or at least not oppose it, than things could be okay, depending on the answers to 1 and 2.
I’d like to ask a few questions about slowing down AGI as they may turn out to be cruxes for me.
How popular/unpopular is AI slowdown? Ideally, we’d get AI slowdown/AI progress/Neutral as choices in a poll. I also ideally would like different framings of the problem, to test how well frames affect people’s choices. But I do want at least a poll on how popular/unpopular AI slowdown is.
How much does the government want AI to be slowed down? Is Trevor’s story about the US government not willing to countenance AI slowdown correct, and instead speed it up the norm in interacting with the government?
How much will AI companies lobby against AI slowdown? Because if this is a repeat of the fossil fuel situation where AI is viewed by the public as extremely good, I probably would not support too much object work in AI governance, and instead go meta. In other words, I’d be doing more meta things. But if AI companies support AI slowdown or at least not oppose it, than things could be okay, depending on the answers to 1 and 2.