Recently I was talking to someone about Pause AI’s activities in the UK. They asked something like
“Even if Kier Starmer (UK Prime Minister) decided to pause, what would that do?”
And I responded:
“We would have the resources of an entire nation state pointed towards our cause.”
Canada (all this applies to the UK too) has a lot more resources to throw around than MIRI, Lighthaven, OpenPhil, and Pause/Control/Stop AI all put together. Canada is a founding NATO member. If Canada’s government, and military intelligence leaders, were “Doomer-pilled” on AI, they could do a lot more than we have done.
And then you would do what with those resources? If the pause is just a proxy-goal for whatever those resources would be used for, why not make that thing the explicit goal instead of the pause?
Recently I was talking to someone about Pause AI’s activities in the UK. They asked something like
“Even if Kier Starmer (UK Prime Minister) decided to pause, what would that do?”
And I responded:
“We would have the resources of an entire nation state pointed towards our cause.”
Canada (all this applies to the UK too) has a lot more resources to throw around than MIRI, Lighthaven, OpenPhil, and Pause/Control/Stop AI all put together. Canada is a founding NATO member. If Canada’s government, and military intelligence leaders, were “Doomer-pilled” on AI, they could do a lot more than we have done.
And then you would do what with those resources? If the pause is just a proxy-goal for whatever those resources would be used for, why not make that thing the explicit goal instead of the pause?