I was thinking a little bit about the bystander effect in the context of AI safety, alignment, and regulation.
With many independent actors working on and around AI – each operating with safety intentions regarding their own project – is there worrying potential for a collective bystander effect to emerge? Each regulatory body might assume that AI companies, or other regulatory bodies, or the wider AI safety community are sufficiently addressing the overall problems and ensuring collective safety.
This could lead to a situation where no single entity feels the full weight of responsibility for the holistic safety of the global AI ecosystem, resulting in an overall landscape that is flawed, unsafe, and/or dangerous.
I was thinking a little bit about the bystander effect in the context of AI safety, alignment, and regulation.
With many independent actors working on and around AI – each operating with safety intentions regarding their own project – is there worrying potential for a collective bystander effect to emerge? Each regulatory body might assume that AI companies, or other regulatory bodies, or the wider AI safety community are sufficiently addressing the overall problems and ensuring collective safety.
This could lead to a situation where no single entity feels the full weight of responsibility for the holistic safety of the global AI ecosystem, resulting in an overall landscape that is flawed, unsafe, and/or dangerous.