Yeah, it’s less deontologically bad than murder but I admit it’s still not completely okay.
PS: Part of the reason I used the unflattering hitman analogy is because I’m no longer as optimistic about Anthropic’s influence.
They routinely describe other problems (e.g. winning the race against China to defend democracy) with the same urgency as AI Notkilleveryoneism.
The only way to believe that AI Notkilleveryoneism is still Anthropic’s main purpose, is to hope that,
They describe a ton of other problems with the same urgency as AI Notkilleveryoneism, but that is only due to political necessity.
At the same time, their apparent concern for AI Notkilleveryoneism is not just a political maneuver, but significantly more genuine.
This “hope” is plausible since the people in charge of Anthropic prefer to live, and consistently claimed to have high P(doom).
But it’s not certain, and there is circumstantial evidence suggesting this isn’t the case (e.g. their lobbying direction, and how they’re choosing people for their board of directors).
Maybe50% this hope is just cope :(
Yeah, it’s less deontologically bad than murder but I admit it’s still not completely okay.
PS: Part of the reason I used the unflattering hitman analogy is because I’m no longer as optimistic about Anthropic’s influence.
They routinely describe other problems (e.g. winning the race against China to defend democracy) with the same urgency as AI Notkilleveryoneism.
The only way to believe that AI Notkilleveryoneism is still Anthropic’s main purpose, is to hope that,
They describe a ton of other problems with the same urgency as AI Notkilleveryoneism, but that is only due to political necessity.
At the same time, their apparent concern for AI Notkilleveryoneism is not just a political maneuver, but significantly more genuine.
This “hope” is plausible since the people in charge of Anthropic prefer to live, and consistently claimed to have high P(doom).
But it’s not certain, and there is circumstantial evidence suggesting this isn’t the case (e.g. their lobbying direction, and how they’re choosing people for their board of directors).
Maybe50% this hope is just cope :(