I think the intelligence community ought to be watching AI risk, whether or not they actually are.
e.g. in the UK, the Socialist Workers Party was heavily infiltrated by undercover agents; widwly suspected at the time, subsequently officially confirmed. Now, you way well disagree with their politics, but it’s pretty clear they didn’t amount to a threat. Infiltration should probably have bailed out after quickly Establishing threat level was low.
AI risk, on the other hand … from the point of view of an intelligence agency, there’s uncertainty about whether there’s a real risk or not. Seems worthwhile getting some undercover agents in place to find out what’s going on.
… though, if in 20 years time it has become clear the AI apocalypse has been averted, and the three letter agencies are still running dozens of agents inside 5he AI companies, we could reasonably say their agents have outlived their usefulness.
I think the intelligence community ought to be watching AI risk, whether or not they actually are.
e.g. in the UK, the Socialist Workers Party was heavily infiltrated by undercover agents; widwly suspected at the time, subsequently officially confirmed. Now, you way well disagree with their politics, but it’s pretty clear they didn’t amount to a threat. Infiltration should probably have bailed out after quickly Establishing threat level was low.
AI risk, on the other hand … from the point of view of an intelligence agency, there’s uncertainty about whether there’s a real risk or not. Seems worthwhile getting some undercover agents in place to find out what’s going on.
… though, if in 20 years time it has become clear the AI apocalypse has been averted, and the three letter agencies are still running dozens of agents inside 5he AI companies, we could reasonably say their agents have outlived their usefulness.