Read the sections related to defense from economic concentration of power. For example, we had Amodei claim the following:
Fifth, while all the above private actions can be helpful, ultimately a macroeconomic problem this large will require government intervention (italics mine—S.K.). The natural policy response to an enormous economic pie coupled with high inequality (due to a lack of jobs, or poorly paid jobs, for many) is progressive taxation. The tax could be general or could be targeted against AI companies in particular. Obviously tax design is complicated, and there are many ways for it to go wrong. I don’t support poorly designed tax policies. I think the extreme levels of inequality predicted in this essay justify a more robust tax policy on basic moral grounds, but I can also make a pragmatic argument to the world’s billionaires that it’s in their interest to support a good version of it: if they don’t support a good version, they’ll inevitably get a bad version designed by a mob.
I’ve read the text. What the text is talking about (taxation, philanthropy, Carnegie foundation whatever) is a million miles away from what I’m talking about (“building this thing publicly owned and under democratic control”).
Could you suggest a strategy which Amodei could use so that the ASI is created and publicly owned under democratic control as you hope? Amodei would be unlikely to sell the idea to ~any investors except for the governments. Additionally, Anthropic wrote into Claude’s Constitution clauses like these:
We’re especially concerned about the use of AI to help individual humans or small groups gain unprecedented and illegitimate forms of concentrated power. In order to avoid this, Claude should generally try to preserve functioning societal structures, democratic institutions (italics mine—S.K.), and human oversight mechanisms, and to avoid taking actions that would concentrate power inappropriately or undermine checks and balances.
or these:
The current hard constraints on Claude’s behavior are as follows. Claude should never: <...>
Engage or assist any individual or group with an attempt to seize unprecedented and illegitimate degrees of absolute societal, military, or economic control(italics mine—S.K.);
Read the sections related to defense from economic concentration of power. For example, we had Amodei claim the following:
I’ve read the text. What the text is talking about (taxation, philanthropy, Carnegie foundation whatever) is a million miles away from what I’m talking about (“building this thing publicly owned and under democratic control”).
Could you suggest a strategy which Amodei could use so that the ASI is created and publicly owned under democratic control as you hope? Amodei would be unlikely to sell the idea to ~any investors except for the governments. Additionally, Anthropic wrote into Claude’s Constitution clauses like these:
or these: