Instead, the U.S. government will do what it has done every time it’s been convinced of the importance of a powerful new technology in the past hundred years: it will drive research and development for military purposes.
I wonder if there is an actual path to alignment-pilling the US government by framing it as a race to solve alignment? That would get them to make military projects focused on aligning AI as quickly as possible, rather than building a hostile god. It also seems like a fairly defensible position politically, with everything being a struggle between powers to get aligned AI first, counting misaligned AI as one of the powers.
Something like: “Whoever solves alignment first wins the future of the galaxy, therefore we need to race to solve alignment. Capabilities don’t help unless they’re aligned, and move us closer to a hostile power (the AI) solving alignment and wiping us out.”
I wonder if there is an actual path to alignment-pilling the US government by framing it as a race to solve alignment? That would get them to make military projects focused on aligning AI as quickly as possible, rather than building a hostile god. It also seems like a fairly defensible position politically, with everything being a struggle between powers to get aligned AI first, counting misaligned AI as one of the powers.
Something like: “Whoever solves alignment first wins the future of the galaxy, therefore we need to race to solve alignment. Capabilities don’t help unless they’re aligned, and move us closer to a hostile power (the AI) solving alignment and wiping us out.”