That’s the fun part: you can’t. It’s not even an AI problem, it’s a “we as a society are at this point with a lot of tech” problem. You can see it playing out with guns, to a certain extent, but guns are a miniscule threat compared to CRISPR and AI. Guns are just one low ladder rung on the “destroys things” stairway to heaven. Rock < knife < arrow < muzzle loader < automatic weapon < grenade < missile < nuke < CRISPR, in threat level right now, and AI is sitting beside each of them ready to give them a nudge into the hands of anyone with basic typing skills and a bit of dedication to engineering.
The only way I can see is if you present the info to a limited audience of validated individuals, but who has both the ethical maturity and the power to do the right thing at the same time right now?
That’s the fun part: you can’t. It’s not even an AI problem, it’s a “we as a society are at this point with a lot of tech” problem. You can see it playing out with guns, to a certain extent, but guns are a miniscule threat compared to CRISPR and AI. Guns are just one low ladder rung on the “destroys things” stairway to heaven. Rock < knife < arrow < muzzle loader < automatic weapon < grenade < missile < nuke < CRISPR, in threat level right now, and AI is sitting beside each of them ready to give them a nudge into the hands of anyone with basic typing skills and a bit of dedication to engineering.
The only way I can see is if you present the info to a limited audience of validated individuals, but who has both the ethical maturity and the power to do the right thing at the same time right now?
I hear you, thank you for your comment.
I guess I don’t have a clear model for how big is the pool of people who:
have malicious intent;
access LessWrong and other spaces tightly linked to this;
don’t yet have the kind of ideas that my research could provide them with.