asserts that pausing AI development may be necessary
This is much, much stronger language than the segment you quote right after it. He’s not doing anything like ‘asserting’, he doesn’t mention a pause, he doesn’t use the word necessary, and it’s not clear that ‘do x before proceeding’ means ‘stop for n years to work this out’ rather than ‘ make our case by fiat to tech illiterate bureaucrats who wouldn’t know if, how, or why to implement a real pause, while the work basically continues in the background.’
It’s plausible they view much of their existing comms work as meeting something like the bar described in this post.
This is a much bigger stretch than Demis at Davos (which is itself often exaggerated).
I do agree that “asserts” was too strong. Changed to “writes about the possibility of needing to coordinate with governments and other labs before proceeding further” to stay closer to the quote.
That said, I still think interpreting the “before” part as a statement about pausing (even for a short time) is a reasonable interpretation.
This is much, much stronger language than the segment you quote right after it. He’s not doing anything like ‘asserting’, he doesn’t mention a pause, he doesn’t use the word necessary, and it’s not clear that ‘do x before proceeding’ means ‘stop for n years to work this out’ rather than ‘ make our case by fiat to tech illiterate bureaucrats who wouldn’t know if, how, or why to implement a real pause, while the work basically continues in the background.’
It’s plausible they view much of their existing comms work as meeting something like the bar described in this post.
This is a much bigger stretch than Demis at Davos (which is itself often exaggerated).
I do agree that “asserts” was too strong. Changed to “writes about the possibility of needing to coordinate with governments and other labs before proceeding further” to stay closer to the quote.
That said, I still think interpreting the “before” part as a statement about pausing (even for a short time) is a reasonable interpretation.