Has any serious AI Safety research org thought about situating themselves so that they could continue to function after a nuclear war?
Wait, hear me out.
A global thermonuclear war would set AI timelines back by at least a decade, for all of the obvious reasons. So an AI Safety org that survived would have additional precious years to work on the alignment problem, compared to orgs in the worlds where we avoid that war.
So it seems to me that at least one org with short timelines ought to move to New Zealand or at least move farther away from cities.
(Yes, I know MIRI was pondering leaving the Bay Area for underspecified reasons. I’d love to know what their thinking was regarding this effect, but I don’t expect they’d reveal it.)
Has any serious AI Safety research org thought about situating themselves so that they could continue to function after a nuclear war?
Wait, hear me out.
A global thermonuclear war would set AI timelines back by at least a decade, for all of the obvious reasons. So an AI Safety org that survived would have additional precious years to work on the alignment problem, compared to orgs in the worlds where we avoid that war.
So it seems to me that at least one org with short timelines ought to move to New Zealand or at least move farther away from cities.
(Yes, I know MIRI was pondering leaving the Bay Area for underspecified reasons. I’d love to know what their thinking was regarding this effect, but I don’t expect they’d reveal it.)