Is there a meaningful group of people who believed chief executives of leading AI labs would be convicted of treason or sedition? What reasoning went behind privileging this particular hypothesis as one worth looking at, rejecting, and writing a LW post about?
I personally thought that “taking actions that would give yourself more power than the government” was something that… seemed like it shouldn’t be allowed? Many people I talked to shared your perspective of “of course AI labs are in the green” but it wasn’t so obvious to me. I originally did the research in April and May, but since then there was the Situational Awareness report with the quote “it’s quite plausible individual CEOs would have the power to literally coup the US government.” I haven’t seen anyone else talking about this.
My reasoning for choosing to write about this topic went like this: ”They are gaining abilities which will allow them to overthrow the government.” ″What? Are they allowed to do that? Isn’t the government going to stop them?”
If I were in charge of a government, I sure wouldn’t want people doing things that would set them up to overthrow me. (And this is true even if that government gets its mandate from its citizens, like the US.)
Maybe the details of treason and sedition laws are more common knowledge than I thought, and everyone but me picked up how they worked from other sources?
Is there a meaningful group of people who believed chief executives of leading AI labs would be convicted of treason or sedition? What reasoning went behind privileging this particular hypothesis as one worth looking at, rejecting, and writing a LW post about?
I personally thought that “taking actions that would give yourself more power than the government” was something that… seemed like it shouldn’t be allowed? Many people I talked to shared your perspective of “of course AI labs are in the green” but it wasn’t so obvious to me. I originally did the research in April and May, but since then there was the Situational Awareness report with the quote “it’s quite plausible individual CEOs would have the power to literally coup the US government.” I haven’t seen anyone else talking about this.
My reasoning for choosing to write about this topic went like this:
”They are gaining abilities which will allow them to overthrow the government.”
″What? Are they allowed to do that? Isn’t the government going to stop them?”
If I were in charge of a government, I sure wouldn’t want people doing things that would set them up to overthrow me. (And this is true even if that government gets its mandate from its citizens, like the US.)
Maybe the details of treason and sedition laws are more common knowledge than I thought, and everyone but me picked up how they worked from other sources?