As far as what a plan to automate AI safety would work out in practice, assuming a relatively strong version of the concept is in this post below, and there will be another post that comes out by the same author talking more about the big risks discussed in the comments below:
In general, I think the crux is that in most timelines (at a lower bound, 65-70%) that have AGI developed relatively soon (so timelines from 2030-2045, roughly), and the alignment problem isn’t solvable by default/it’s at least non-trivially tricky to solved, conditioning on alignment success looks more like “we’ve successfully figured out how to prepare for AI automation of everything, and we managed to use alignment and control techniques well enough that we can safely pass most of the effort to AI”, rather than other end states like “humans are deeply enhanced” or “lawmakers actually coordinated to pause AI, and are actually giving funding to alignment organizations such that we can make AI safe.”
As far as what a plan to automate AI safety would work out in practice, assuming a relatively strong version of the concept is in this post below, and there will be another post that comes out by the same author talking more about the big risks discussed in the comments below:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TTFsKxQThrqgWeXYJ/how-might-we-safely-pass-the-buck-to-ai
In general, I think the crux is that in most timelines (at a lower bound, 65-70%) that have AGI developed relatively soon (so timelines from 2030-2045, roughly), and the alignment problem isn’t solvable by default/it’s at least non-trivially tricky to solved, conditioning on alignment success looks more like “we’ve successfully figured out how to prepare for AI automation of everything, and we managed to use alignment and control techniques well enough that we can safely pass most of the effort to AI”, rather than other end states like “humans are deeply enhanced” or “lawmakers actually coordinated to pause AI, and are actually giving funding to alignment organizations such that we can make AI safe.”