“Corporate leaders might be greedy, hubristic, and/or reckless”
They are or will be, with a probability greater than 99%. These characteristics are generally rewarded in the upper levels of the corporate world—even a reckless bad bet is rarely career-ending above a certain level of personal wealth.
The minimum buy-in cost to create have a reasonable chance of creating some form of AGI is at least $10-100 billion dollars in today’s money. This is a pretty stupendous amount of money, only someone who is exceedingly greedy, hubristic and/or reckless is likely to amass control of such a large amount of resources and be able to direct it towards any particular goal.
If you look at the world today, there are perhaps 200 people with control over that much resource, and only perhaps only ten for whom doing so would not be somewhat reckless. You can no doubt name them, and their greed and/or hubristic nature is well publicised.
This is not the actual research team of course, but it is the environment in which they are working.
“Corporate leaders might be greedy, hubristic, and/or reckless”
They are or will be, with a probability greater than 99%. These characteristics are generally rewarded in the upper levels of the corporate world—even a reckless bad bet is rarely career-ending above a certain level of personal wealth.
The minimum buy-in cost to create have a reasonable chance of creating some form of AGI is at least $10-100 billion dollars in today’s money. This is a pretty stupendous amount of money, only someone who is exceedingly greedy, hubristic and/or reckless is likely to amass control of such a large amount of resources and be able to direct it towards any particular goal.
If you look at the world today, there are perhaps 200 people with control over that much resource, and only perhaps only ten for whom doing so would not be somewhat reckless. You can no doubt name them, and their greed and/or hubristic nature is well publicised.
This is not the actual research team of course, but it is the environment in which they are working.