1. Out-racing China is the biggest focus. We must publicly declare a Manhattan-style Project on superintelligence to beat China. When talking to the government, use the “beat China” framing.
2. Alignment of superintelligence is easy/solved. If it’s not solved, we solve it by telling AI to solve AI alignment for us. We don’t need to struggle thinking about that point any further; we can just make a mental note to tell the AIs at some point in the future to solve the problem for us.
3. AI stocks will soon allow them to buy literal galaxies, so the sooner we get ASI, the sooner they can get their own galaxies.
Based on these ideas, investing in new advanced lithography machines (AI chip making machines) makes perfect sense. Building more chips means out-racing China, and we just solve alignment by using a couple of these chips. And the sooner we get to ASI, the sooner they get to their galaxies.
From what I have seen, Leopold helped popularize these ideas in the AI safety discourse:
1. Out-racing China is the biggest focus. We must publicly declare a Manhattan-style Project on superintelligence to beat China. When talking to the government, use the “beat China” framing.
2. Alignment of superintelligence is easy/solved. If it’s not solved, we solve it by telling AI to solve AI alignment for us. We don’t need to struggle thinking about that point any further; we can just make a mental note to tell the AIs at some point in the future to solve the problem for us.
3. AI stocks will soon allow them to buy literal galaxies, so the sooner we get ASI, the sooner they can get their own galaxies.
Based on these ideas, investing in new advanced lithography machines (AI chip making machines) makes perfect sense. Building more chips means out-racing China, and we just solve alignment by using a couple of these chips. And the sooner we get to ASI, the sooner they get to their galaxies.