What we want to do is increase the percentage of AI efforts that are aware and cautious of the dangers of uFAI relative to all AI efforts that have a chance of succeeding (probably weighed against their chance of succeeding).
Burn everything to the ground doesn’t help; we get 0⁄0 on Earth, and haven’t changed the numbers in the rest of the universe.
Suppressing technological developments in other countries might help, but it is probably less efficient than just targeting AI efforts and policy makers at increasing that percentage. If the SIAI has a good chance of being the first to succeed at AI (I don’t think it does), then stomping out other efforts might be worthwhile, but since it’s an underfunded underdog, focusing on education and awareness seems to be a better use of resources. I believe this is what they’re doing though.
Ultimately, this seems to me to be the only way significantly changing the percentage in our Hubble volume, since as a civilization we’re competing against all the others.
What we want to do is increase the percentage of AI efforts that are aware and cautious of the dangers of uFAI relative to all AI efforts that have a chance of succeeding (probably weighed against their chance of succeeding).
Burn everything to the ground doesn’t help; we get 0⁄0 on Earth, and haven’t changed the numbers in the rest of the universe.
Suppressing technological developments in other countries might help, but it is probably less efficient than just targeting AI efforts and policy makers at increasing that percentage. If the SIAI has a good chance of being the first to succeed at AI (I don’t think it does), then stomping out other efforts might be worthwhile, but since it’s an underfunded underdog, focusing on education and awareness seems to be a better use of resources. I believe this is what they’re doing though.
Ultimately, this seems to me to be the only way significantly changing the percentage in our Hubble volume, since as a civilization we’re competing against all the others.