Looks like a good summary of their current positions, but how about willingness to update their position and act decisively and based on actual evidence/data? De Santis’s history of anti-mask/anti-vaccine stances have to be taken into account, perhaps? Same for Kennedy?
If someone is currently on board with AGI worry, flexibility is arguably less important (→ Kennedy), but for people who don’t seem to have strong stances so far (→ Haley, DeSantis), I think it’s reasonable to argue that general sanity is more important than the noises they’ve made on the topic so far. (Afaik Biden hasn’t said much about the topic before the executive order.) Then again, you could also argue that DeSantis’ comment does qualify as a reasonably strong stance.
Just being “on board with AGI worry” is so far from sufficient to taking useful actions to reduce the risk that I think epistemics and judgment is more important, especially since we’re likely to get lots of evidence (one way or another) about the timelines and risks posed by AI during the term of the next president.
Looks like a good summary of their current positions, but how about willingness to update their position and act decisively and based on actual evidence/data? De Santis’s history of anti-mask/anti-vaccine stances have to be taken into account, perhaps? Same for Kennedy?
If someone is currently on board with AGI worry, flexibility is arguably less important (→ Kennedy), but for people who don’t seem to have strong stances so far (→ Haley, DeSantis), I think it’s reasonable to argue that general sanity is more important than the noises they’ve made on the topic so far. (Afaik Biden hasn’t said much about the topic before the executive order.) Then again, you could also argue that DeSantis’ comment does qualify as a reasonably strong stance.
Just being “on board with AGI worry” is so far from sufficient to taking useful actions to reduce the risk that I think epistemics and judgment is more important, especially since we’re likely to get lots of evidence (one way or another) about the timelines and risks posed by AI during the term of the next president.