Briefly responding: a) The issue in this story seems to be that the company doesn’t care about x-safety, not that they are legally obligated to care about face-blindness. b) If governments don’t have bandwidth to effectively vet small AI projects, it seems prudent to err on the side of forbidding projects that might pose x-risk. c) I do think we need effective international cooperation around regulation. But even buying 1-4 years time seems good in expectation. d) I don’t see the x-risk aspect of this story.
I found this thought provoking, but I didn’t find the arguments very strong.
(a) Misdirected Regulations Reduce Effective Safety Effort; Regulations Will Almost Certainly Be Misdirected
(b) Regulations Generally Favor The Legible-To-The-State
(c) Heavy Regulations Can Simply Disempower the Regulator
(d) Regulations Are Likely To Maximize The Power of Companies Pushing Forward Capabilities the Most
Briefly responding:
a) The issue in this story seems to be that the company doesn’t care about x-safety, not that they are legally obligated to care about face-blindness.
b) If governments don’t have bandwidth to effectively vet small AI projects, it seems prudent to err on the side of forbidding projects that might pose x-risk.
c) I do think we need effective international cooperation around regulation. But even buying 1-4 years time seems good in expectation.
d) I don’t see the x-risk aspect of this story.