I’m not, nor have I ever been, an EA, similar to many AI experts to whom this post is addressed. It’s also not addressed to a movement, it’s addressed to individuals. If anything, the DoW’s reaction to dunk on Anthropic for being woke is exactly a symptom of experts stepping out of their lane into partisan politics and getting owned for it.
Restricting what AIs say is indeed a real phenomena, and technical AI safety is getting owned by it. This is a symptom of poor messaging and a lot of focus being on preventing AIs from saying bad words which indeed has ~nothing to do with ASI safety research. It’s my belief that AI safety is so utterly behind that it would be better if ~everyone stopped working on it to warn the world about how dangerous of a situation we’re in so we can ban ASI development internationally. Not only does “safety” research almost always boost capabilities, it also “safety-washes” companies racing to build extinction devices, and a shortage of public experts warning about the danger and putting their work where their mouth is also hurts the situation.
I’m not, nor have I ever been, an EA, similar to many AI experts to whom this post is addressed. It’s also not addressed to a movement, it’s addressed to individuals. If anything, the DoW’s reaction to dunk on Anthropic for being woke is exactly a symptom of experts stepping out of their lane into partisan politics and getting owned for it.
Restricting what AIs say is indeed a real phenomena, and technical AI safety is getting owned by it. This is a symptom of poor messaging and a lot of focus being on preventing AIs from saying bad words which indeed has ~nothing to do with ASI safety research. It’s my belief that AI safety is so utterly behind that it would be better if ~everyone stopped working on it to warn the world about how dangerous of a situation we’re in so we can ban ASI development internationally. Not only does “safety” research almost always boost capabilities, it also “safety-washes” companies racing to build extinction devices, and a shortage of public experts warning about the danger and putting their work where their mouth is also hurts the situation.