Resources used in pressuring corporations are unlikely to have any effect which increases AI risk.
Devil’s advocate: If this unevenly delays corporations sensitive to public concerns, and those are also corporations taking alignment at least somewhat seriously, we get a later but less safe takeoff. Though this goes for almost any intervention, including to some extent regulatory.
Yes. An example of how this could go disastrously wrong is if US research gets regulated but Chinese research continues apace, and China ends up winning the race with a particularly unsafe AGI.
Devil’s advocate: If this unevenly delays corporations sensitive to public concerns, and those are also corporations taking alignment at least somewhat seriously, we get a later but less safe takeoff. Though this goes for almost any intervention, including to some extent regulatory.
Yes. An example of how this could go disastrously wrong is if US research gets regulated but Chinese research continues apace, and China ends up winning the race with a particularly unsafe AGI.