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.);
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: