No, you’re asked to choose between the “authoritarian” open models that do what you say, and the “democratic” closed models controlled by Amodei et al.
The other problem is in assuming democracy/the will of the people will ever be stable in the AI era, due to the combo of being able to brainwash people with neurotech, combined with being able to remove most of the traditional threats to regimes through aligned/technically safe AIs in the militaries.
(Though here, I’m using the word aligned/technically safe in the sense of it following orders/being aligned to the valueset of a single person, or at most a small group, not humanity as a whole.)
Am I being asked to choose between AGI/ASI doing whatever Xi Jinping says, and it doing whatever Donald Trump says?
No, you’re asked to choose between the “authoritarian” open models that do what you say, and the “democratic” closed models controlled by Amodei et al.
The other problem is in assuming democracy/the will of the people will ever be stable in the AI era, due to the combo of being able to brainwash people with neurotech, combined with being able to remove most of the traditional threats to regimes through aligned/technically safe AIs in the militaries.
(Though here, I’m using the word aligned/technically safe in the sense of it following orders/being aligned to the valueset of a single person, or at most a small group, not humanity as a whole.)