I’m curious whether you know of any examples in history where humanity purposefully and succesfully steered towards a significantly less competitive [economically, militarily,...] technology that was nonetheless safer.
This sounds much like a lot of the history of environmentalism and safety regulations? As in, there’s a long history of [corporations selling X, using a net-harmful technology], then governments regulating. Often this happens after the technology is sold, but sometimes before it’s completely popular around the world.
I’d expect that there’s similarly a lot of history of early product areas where some people realize that [popular trajectory X] will likely be bad and get regulated away, so they help further [safer version Y].
Going back to the previous quote:
“steer the paradigm away from AI agents + modern generative AI paradigm to something else which is safer”
I agree it’s tough, but would expect some startups to exist in this space. Arguably there are already several claiming to be focusing on “Safe” AI. I’m not sure if people here would consider this technically part of the “modern generative AI paradigm” or not, but I’d imagine these groups would be taking some different avenues, using clear technical innovations.
There are worlds where the dangerous forms have disadvantages later on—for example, they are harder to control/oversee, or they get regulated. In those worlds, I’d expect there should/could be some efforts waiting to take advantage of that situation.
This sounds much like a lot of the history of environmentalism and safety regulations? As in, there’s a long history of [corporations selling X, using a net-harmful technology], then governments regulating. Often this happens after the technology is sold, but sometimes before it’s completely popular around the world.
I’d expect that there’s similarly a lot of history of early product areas where some people realize that [popular trajectory X] will likely be bad and get regulated away, so they help further [safer version Y].
Going back to the previous quote:
I agree it’s tough, but would expect some startups to exist in this space. Arguably there are already several claiming to be focusing on “Safe” AI. I’m not sure if people here would consider this technically part of the “modern generative AI paradigm” or not, but I’d imagine these groups would be taking some different avenues, using clear technical innovations.
There are worlds where the dangerous forms have disadvantages later on—for example, they are harder to control/oversee, or they get regulated. In those worlds, I’d expect there should/could be some efforts waiting to take advantage of that situation.