Ban AI Superintelligence Form Letter
My wife and I wrote some letters to our congresspeople about the HuggingFace incident and in favor of the Ban AI Superintelligence Act. In case anybody wants to write their own congresspeople, we invite you to use our form letter.
I’ve included three form factors for the letter: pdf, docx, and txt (the actual extension of the file is .docx, because for some reason Wordpress doesn’t let you host .txt files, but the actual content of the file is raw pasteable text. This is useful for reps that want you to paste raw text into their web form). I’ve also heard that physically snail-mailing your reps can leave a bigger impression, although it’s also more delayed—it might be good to do both, if you have the spoons.
If you use our form letter, please make sure to fill in the three blanks for the representative’s name, as well as putting your name at the end and filling in (or deleting) the personal note placeholder!
If you want to message all your representatives in a single flow without needing to worry about interfacing with all their individual websites, you can enter your address into democracy.io and it will handle sending all of them your message.
I 100% agree with the sentiment, but how do we distinguish between a really capable model and one that actually meets the definitions listed?
Human cognitive performance is highly variable, and just how broad of a range do we mean here? Arguably this is already true with the frontier models, yet I wouldn’t classify them as ASI.
I worry that this bill will feel good, but ultimately not apply to anything in the real world. It’s way too easy to move the goalposts. Worse, I worry that after having “done something,” that it will make society complacent.
Then there is the problem of subjective enforcement. What if OpenAI or another company wanted to take out a competitor, and sends a ton of lobbyists to convince the government that the competitor has breached the definition, while they haven’t for… reasons?
I don’t know what the answer is. I can’t think of a definition that doesn’t have these fatal flaws.
The goals of the bill are admirable. Pausing and setting up an agency for coordination and regulation are very reasonable. I support that. The enforcement part scares me.