Potentially unpopular take, but if you have the skillset to do so, I’d rather you just come up with simple/clear explanations for why ARA is dangerous, what implications this has for AI policy, present these ideas to policymakers, and iterate on your explanations as you start to see why people are confused.
Note also that in the US, the NTIA has been tasked with making recommendations about open-weight models. The deadline for official submissions has ended but I’m pretty confident that if you had something you wanted them to know, you could just email it to them and they’d take a look. My impression is that they’re broadly aware of extreme risks from certain kinds of open-sourcing but might benefit from (a) clearer explanations of ARA threat models and (b) specific suggestions for what needs to be done.
Potentially unpopular take, but if you have the skillset to do so, I’d rather you just come up with simple/clear explanations for why ARA is dangerous, what implications this has for AI policy, present these ideas to policymakers, and iterate on your explanations as you start to see why people are confused.
Note also that in the US, the NTIA has been tasked with making recommendations about open-weight models. The deadline for official submissions has ended but I’m pretty confident that if you had something you wanted them to know, you could just email it to them and they’d take a look. My impression is that they’re broadly aware of extreme risks from certain kinds of open-sourcing but might benefit from (a) clearer explanations of ARA threat models and (b) specific suggestions for what needs to be done.