What’s more, I think no private company should be in a position to impose this kind of risk on every living human, and I support efforts to make sure that no company ever is.
I don’t see your name on the Statement on Superintelligence when I search for it. Assuming you didn’t sign it, why not? Do you disagree with it?
It seems like an effort to make sure that no company is in the position to impose this kind of risk on every living human:
We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is
broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and
strong public buy-in.
(Several Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind employees signed.)
I haven’t signed the statement mostly because I snagged on the second bit about public support and wanted to think through in more detail, and ideally to write up/explain, what kind of public support I think it makes sense to condition otherwise safe forms of technological development on (especially insofar as the support in question is supposed to go beyond what’s at stake in e.g. standard democratic decision-making). And I haven’t had a chance to do this yet. That said, I may still sign. And per my comments in the post (see screenshot), I do support the right kind of global prohibition on developing superintelligence until we have a vastly better understanding of how to do safely—though “the right kind” is important here, and (as I expect you agree) I also think that there are a lot of important downside risks in this vicinity.
I don’t see your name on the Statement on Superintelligence when I search for it. Assuming you didn’t sign it, why not? Do you disagree with it?
It seems like an effort to make sure that no company is in the position to impose this kind of risk on every living human:
(Several Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind employees signed.)
Joe tweet from Nov 5th: