More money should be directed to improving AI policy than is going into technical AI alignment.
I want to get paid to work on technical AI alignment.
Why might this seem like a contradiction? Either I should think that more money should be put into technical AI alignment so I and other people can get paid to do it, or I should conclude that that AI policy is more important and try to work on that instead.
Why do I believe this is not actually a contradiction? In my worldview, AI is a very important and potentially existentially dangerous technology, and the current shepherds of it’s development are not handling their responsibility with commensurate wisdom. AI policy is then, the more important and constrained focus. But I do not believe that technical AI alignment should be completely forgotten, and I do not believe I have the aptitude or desire to do policy work. I intrinsically like research and theory building.
I wonder how many other people feel the way I feel. It would be quite a problem if it was the majority of us.
A contradiction that isn’t a contradiction:
I hold both of these views:
More money should be directed to improving AI policy than is going into technical AI alignment.
I want to get paid to work on technical AI alignment.
Why might this seem like a contradiction? Either I should think that more money should be put into technical AI alignment so I and other people can get paid to do it, or I should conclude that that AI policy is more important and try to work on that instead.
Why do I believe this is not actually a contradiction? In my worldview, AI is a very important and potentially existentially dangerous technology, and the current shepherds of it’s development are not handling their responsibility with commensurate wisdom. AI policy is then, the more important and constrained focus. But I do not believe that technical AI alignment should be completely forgotten, and I do not believe I have the aptitude or desire to do policy work. I intrinsically like research and theory building.
I wonder how many other people feel the way I feel. It would be quite a problem if it was the majority of us.