I’m not personally in favor of a pause so admittedly I come at this from a very different perspective from you. However, I feel obligated to speak up on this issue.
I have worries about the consequences of Suleyman’s attitude as the head of Microsoft AI. Morally I worry that he and Microsoft are going to do some highly unethical things, and may argue for best practices/legislation which facilitates mass suffering. Pragmatically I worry that the result of this may be conflict between humans and digital minds, where such conflict might not have otherwise existed.
Suleyman is not just some random guy, he runs a frontier lab. He’s probably got a substantial lobbying budget as his disposal. I think it’s important to put things on the record that point out the flaws in/motivations behind his reasoning, so that when some policymaker is considering the issues down the line, the holes in his argument are easy to find.
I’m not personally in favor of a pause so admittedly I come at this from a very different perspective from you. However, I feel obligated to speak up on this issue.
I have worries about the consequences of Suleyman’s attitude as the head of Microsoft AI. Morally I worry that he and Microsoft are going to do some highly unethical things, and may argue for best practices/legislation which facilitates mass suffering. Pragmatically I worry that the result of this may be conflict between humans and digital minds, where such conflict might not have otherwise existed.
Suleyman is not just some random guy, he runs a frontier lab. He’s probably got a substantial lobbying budget as his disposal. I think it’s important to put things on the record that point out the flaws in/motivations behind his reasoning, so that when some policymaker is considering the issues down the line, the holes in his argument are easy to find.