Yeah to be clear I do think it is worth it for people to be thinking about these problems from this perspective; I just don’t think they need to be AI researchers.
Yeah, I understand that. My point is that the same way society didn’t work by default, systems of AI won’t work by default, and that the interventions that will be needed will require AI researchers. That is, it’s not just about setting up laws, norms, contracts, and standards for managing these systems. It is about figuring out how to make AI systems which interact with each other in the way that humans do in the presence of laws, norms, standards and contracts. Someone who is not an AI research would have no hope in solving this, since they cannot understand how AI systems will interact, and cannot offer appropriate interventions.
It seems to me like you might each be imagining a slightly different situation.
Not quite certain what the difference is. But it seems like Michael is talking about setting up well the parts of the system that are mostly/only AI. In my opinion, this requires AI researchers, in collaboration with experts from whatever-area-is-getting-automated. (So while it might not fall only under the umbrella of AI research, it critically requires it.) Whereas—it seems to me that - Rohin is talking more about ensuring that the (mostly) human parts of society do their job in the presence of automatization. For example, how to deal with unemployment when parts of the industry get automated. (And I agree that I wouldn’t go looking for AI researches when tackling this.)
Yeah to be clear I do think it is worth it for people to be thinking about these problems from this perspective; I just don’t think they need to be AI researchers.
Yeah, I understand that. My point is that the same way society didn’t work by default, systems of AI won’t work by default, and that the interventions that will be needed will require AI researchers. That is, it’s not just about setting up laws, norms, contracts, and standards for managing these systems. It is about figuring out how to make AI systems which interact with each other in the way that humans do in the presence of laws, norms, standards and contracts. Someone who is not an AI research would have no hope in solving this, since they cannot understand how AI systems will interact, and cannot offer appropriate interventions.
It seems to me like you might each be imagining a slightly different situation.
Not quite certain what the difference is. But it seems like Michael is talking about setting up well the parts of the system that are mostly/only AI. In my opinion, this requires AI researchers, in collaboration with experts from whatever-area-is-getting-automated. (So while it might not fall only under the umbrella of AI research, it critically requires it.) Whereas—it seems to me that - Rohin is talking more about ensuring that the (mostly) human parts of society do their job in the presence of automatization. For example, how to deal with unemployment when parts of the industry get automated. (And I agree that I wouldn’t go looking for AI researches when tackling this.)