On the subject of DeemMind and pausing AI development, I’d like to highlight Demis Hassabis’s remark on this topic in a DeepMind podcast interview a year ago:
‘Avengers assembled’ for AI Safety: Pause AI development to prove things mathematically
You said you’ve got this sort of 20-year prediction and then simultaneously where society is in terms of understanding and grappling with these ideas. Do you think that DeepMind has a responsibility to hit pause at any point?
Potentially. I always imagine that as we got closer to the sort of gray zone that you were talking about earlier, the best thing to do might be to pause the pushing of the performance of these systems so that you can analyze down to minute detail exactly and maybe even prove things mathematically about the system so that you know the limits and otherwise of the systems that you’re building. At that point I think all the world’s greatest minds should probably be thinking about this problem. So that was what I would be advocating to you know the Terence Tao’s of this world, the best mathematicians. Actually I’ve even talked to him about this—I know you’re working on the Riemann hypothesis or something which is the best thing in mathematics but actually this is more pressing. I have this sort of idea of like almost uh ‘Avengers assembled’ of the scientific world because that’s a bit of like my dream.
It’d be nice if Hassabis made another public statement about his views on pausing AI development and thoughts on the FLI petition. If now’s not the right time in his view, when is? And what can he do to help with coordination of the industry?
On the subject of DeemMind and pausing AI development, I’d like to highlight Demis Hassabis’s remark on this topic in a DeepMind podcast interview a year ago:
‘Avengers assembled’ for AI Safety: Pause AI development to prove things mathematically
Hannah Fry (17:07):
Demis Hassabis (17:24):
It’d be nice if Hassabis made another public statement about his views on pausing AI development and thoughts on the FLI petition. If now’s not the right time in his view, when is? And what can he do to help with coordination of the industry?