I have less experience in Japan than Harold does, but would generally advocate a grounded approach to issues of AI safety and alignment, rather than an abstract one.
I was perhaps most struck over the weekend that I did not speak to anyone who had actually been involved in developing or running safety-critical systems (aviation, nuclear energy, CBW...), on which lives depended. This gave a lot of the conversations the flavour of a ‘glass bead game’.
As Japan is famously risk-averse, it would seem to me—perhaps naively—that grounded arguments should land well here.
I wholeheartedly agree, Colin. (I think we’re saying the same thing—let me know where we may disagree.)
It’s a daily challenge in my work to ‘translate’ what can sometimes seem like abstract nonsense into scenarios grounded in real context, and the reverse.
I want to add that a grounded, high context decision process is slower (still wearing masks?) but significantly wiser (see the urbanism of Tokyo compared to any given US city).
I have less experience in Japan than Harold does, but would generally advocate a grounded approach to issues of AI safety and alignment, rather than an abstract one.
I was perhaps most struck over the weekend that I did not speak to anyone who had actually been involved in developing or running safety-critical systems (aviation, nuclear energy, CBW...), on which lives depended. This gave a lot of the conversations the flavour of a ‘glass bead game’.
As Japan is famously risk-averse, it would seem to me—perhaps naively—that grounded arguments should land well here.
I wholeheartedly agree, Colin. (I think we’re saying the same thing—let me know where we may disagree.)
It’s a daily challenge in my work to ‘translate’ what can sometimes seem like abstract nonsense into scenarios grounded in real context, and the reverse.
I want to add that a grounded, high context decision process is slower (still wearing masks?) but significantly wiser (see the urbanism of Tokyo compared to any given US city).