I think Just Don’t Build Agents could be a win-win here. All the fun of AGI without the washing up, if it’s enforceable.
Possible ways to enforce it:
(1) Galaxy-brained AI methods like Davidad’s night watchman. Downside: scary, hard.
(2) Ordinary human methods like requring all large training runs to be approved by the No Agents committee.
Downside: we’d have to ban not just training agents, but training any system that could plausibly be used to build an agent, which might well include oracle-ish AI like LLMs. Possibly something like Bengio’s scientist AI might be allowed.
I think Just Don’t Build Agents could be a win-win here. All the fun of AGI without the washing up, if it’s enforceable.
Possible ways to enforce it:
(1) Galaxy-brained AI methods like Davidad’s night watchman. Downside: scary, hard.
(2) Ordinary human methods like requring all large training runs to be approved by the No Agents committee.
Downside: we’d have to ban not just training agents, but training any system that could plausibly be used to build an agent, which might well include oracle-ish AI like LLMs. Possibly something like Bengio’s scientist AI might be allowed.
The No Agentic Foundation Models Club ? 😁
I mean, I should mention that I also don’t think that agentic models will try to deceive us if trained how LLMs currently are, unfortunately.