I agree that fines would not help the x-risk situation.
(For one thing, OpenAI already spends a whole lot of money paying off government people in exchange for unfair advantages and special treatment. “Pay the government more money in exchange for letting you keep doing business” is not an incentive structure, it’s just more shakedown.)
I suspect that shutting down OpenAI would help, if it’s possible.
Oh, I think fines and liability might help the x-risk situation on the margin via incentivizing more safety work.
“Pay the government [or people suing you] more money in exchange for letting you keep doing business” seems like an incentive structure to me if the money paid is proportional to how much harm you’re doing. Which isn’t going to be doable up to x-risk level, but it could be doable below that, and there’s some overlap in the work you want to be doing for both.
The main point of my first comment was just that I think that risks of incidents at this scale isn’t a good reason for OpenAI to stop. I think the importance of this incident is that it’s evidence about misalignment risks that could do much more harm in the future as the AIs get much more powerful, if they stay misaligned. (It’s possible you agree with this and I just misunderstood your first comment.)
I agree that fines would not help the x-risk situation.
(For one thing, OpenAI already spends a whole lot of money paying off government people in exchange for unfair advantages and special treatment. “Pay the government more money in exchange for letting you keep doing business” is not an incentive structure, it’s just more shakedown.)
I suspect that shutting down OpenAI would help, if it’s possible.
Oh, I think fines and liability might help the x-risk situation on the margin via incentivizing more safety work.
“Pay the government [or people suing you] more money in exchange for letting you keep doing business” seems like an incentive structure to me if the money paid is proportional to how much harm you’re doing. Which isn’t going to be doable up to x-risk level, but it could be doable below that, and there’s some overlap in the work you want to be doing for both.
The main point of my first comment was just that I think that risks of incidents at this scale isn’t a good reason for OpenAI to stop. I think the importance of this incident is that it’s evidence about misalignment risks that could do much more harm in the future as the AIs get much more powerful, if they stay misaligned. (It’s possible you agree with this and I just misunderstood your first comment.)