… but at some point, it doesn’t matter how much you know, because you can’t “steer” the thing, and even if you can a bunch of other people will be mis-steering it in ways that affect you badly.
I would suggest that maybe some bad experiences might create political will to at least forcibly slow the whole thing down some, but OpenAI already knows as much as the public is likely to learn, and is still doing this. And OpenAI isn’t the only one. Given that, it’s hard to hope the public’s increased knowledge will actually cause it to restrain them from continuing to increase capability as fast as possible and give more access to outside resources as fast as possible.
It might even cause the public to underestimate the risks, if the public’s experience is that the thing only caused, um, quantitative-rather-than-qualitative escalations of already increasing annoyances like privacy breaches, largely unnoticed corporate manipulation of the options available in commercial transactions, largely unnoticed personal manipulation, petty vandalism, not at all petty attacks on infrastructure, unpredictable warfare tactics, ransomware, huge emergent breakdowns of random systems affecting large numbers of people’s lives, and the like. People are getting used to that kind of thing...
… but at some point, it doesn’t matter how much you know, because you can’t “steer” the thing, and even if you can a bunch of other people will be mis-steering it in ways that affect you badly.
I would suggest that maybe some bad experiences might create political will to at least forcibly slow the whole thing down some, but OpenAI already knows as much as the public is likely to learn, and is still doing this. And OpenAI isn’t the only one. Given that, it’s hard to hope the public’s increased knowledge will actually cause it to restrain them from continuing to increase capability as fast as possible and give more access to outside resources as fast as possible.
It might even cause the public to underestimate the risks, if the public’s experience is that the thing only caused, um, quantitative-rather-than-qualitative escalations of already increasing annoyances like privacy breaches, largely unnoticed corporate manipulation of the options available in commercial transactions, largely unnoticed personal manipulation, petty vandalism, not at all petty attacks on infrastructure, unpredictable warfare tactics, ransomware, huge emergent breakdowns of random systems affecting large numbers of people’s lives, and the like. People are getting used to that kind of thing...