In some ways, this would be better if you can get universal buy-in, since there wouldn’t be a race for completion. There might be a race for alignment to particular subgroups? Which could be better or worse, depending.
Also, securing it against bringing insights and know-how back to a clandestine single-nation competitor seems like it would be very difficult. Like, if we had this kind of project being built, do I really believe there won’t be spies telling underground data centers and teams of researchers in Moscow and Washington everything it learns? And that governments will consistently put more effort into the shared project than the secret one?
Why not just one global project?
In some ways, this would be better if you can get universal buy-in, since there wouldn’t be a race for completion. There might be a race for alignment to particular subgroups? Which could be better or worse, depending.
Also, securing it against bringing insights and know-how back to a clandestine single-nation competitor seems like it would be very difficult. Like, if we had this kind of project being built, do I really believe there won’t be spies telling underground data centers and teams of researchers in Moscow and Washington everything it learns? And that governments will consistently put more effort into the shared project than the secret one?
That would seem to be better. As long a Putin and similar don’t get root access to an AGI as a result.