The AI Doomers are only one of several factions that oppose AI and seek to cripple it via weaponized regulation.
Bad faith
There are also factions concerned about “misinformation” and “algorithmic bias,” which in practice means they think chatbots must be censored to prevent them from saying anything politically inconvenient.
Bad faith
AI Doomer coalition abandoned the name “AI safety” and rebranded itself to “AI alignment.”
> AI Doomer coalition abandoned the name “AI safety” and rebranded itself to “AI alignment.”
Seems wrong
(Why do you believe this? I think this is a reasonable gloss of what happened around 2015-2016. I was part of many of those conversations, as I was also part of many of the conversations in which me and others gave up on “AI Alignment” as a thing that could meaningfully describe efforts around existential risk reduction)
Seems to me the name AI safety is currently still widely used, no? As it covers much more than just alignment strategies, by including also stuff like control and governance
Bad faith
Bad faith
Seems wrong
(Why do you believe this? I think this is a reasonable gloss of what happened around 2015-2016. I was part of many of those conversations, as I was also part of many of the conversations in which me and others gave up on “AI Alignment” as a thing that could meaningfully describe efforts around existential risk reduction)
Seems to me the name AI safety is currently still widely used, no? As it covers much more than just alignment strategies, by including also stuff like control and governance
That’s a pretty recent thing! Agree that it has become more used recently (in the last 1-2 years) for practicalreasons.