I guess that if one wishes to advocate for AI safety or an AI pause, and has no other political commitments, one can try to understand and engage with their economic and national security views. You can see the interplay of these factors in their thinking around 1:17:00, where they are discussing, not AI, but industrial policy in general, and whether it’s ever appropriate for government to intervene in an industry.
I ask myself, if I was an American anti-AGI/ASI activist, what would I need to understand? I think I would need to understand the Republican position on things, the Democratic position on things (though the Democrats don’t seem to have a coherent worldview at this point, they strike me as radically in need of assembling one; thus I guess Ezra Klein’s “abundance agenda”), the strategic thinking of the companies that are actually in contention to create superintelligence (e.g. the thinking of Altman, Musk, Amodei, Hassabis); and finally, what’s going on in China and in any other nations that may become contenders in the race.
I guess that if one wishes to advocate for AI safety or an AI pause, and has no other political commitments, one can try to understand and engage with their economic and national security views. You can see the interplay of these factors in their thinking around 1:17:00, where they are discussing, not AI, but industrial policy in general, and whether it’s ever appropriate for government to intervene in an industry.
I ask myself, if I was an American anti-AGI/ASI activist, what would I need to understand? I think I would need to understand the Republican position on things, the Democratic position on things (though the Democrats don’t seem to have a coherent worldview at this point, they strike me as radically in need of assembling one; thus I guess Ezra Klein’s “abundance agenda”), the strategic thinking of the companies that are actually in contention to create superintelligence (e.g. the thinking of Altman, Musk, Amodei, Hassabis); and finally, what’s going on in China and in any other nations that may become contenders in the race.