To be clear—right now my lab is not helping the government wage the current war in Iran. The OpenAI deployment will be in the future. And I would not say “I am OK” with it. But I would say that if the elected government decides to take an action that I don’t agree with, including waging war, then that’s a whole different matter if the government is trying to use my system to undermine the democratic process and stay in power indefinitely.
Right, that’s what matters to you. And that’s my point—that the circle of “what matters to alignment researchers” has been narrowing. You were supposed to work toward a positive singularity for all humanity. Now you’re saying you’re much more ok with using AI to wage war than undermining democracy within. Basically you’re working toward giving the US government the power to do anything it wants to me (a non-US person) and calling it “alignment”.
To be clear—right now my lab is not helping the government wage the current war in Iran. The OpenAI deployment will be in the future. And I would not say “I am OK” with it. But I would say that if the elected government decides to take an action that I don’t agree with, including waging war, then that’s a whole different matter if the government is trying to use my system to undermine the democratic process and stay in power indefinitely.
Right, that’s what matters to you. And that’s my point—that the circle of “what matters to alignment researchers” has been narrowing. You were supposed to work toward a positive singularity for all humanity. Now you’re saying you’re much more ok with using AI to wage war than undermining democracy within. Basically you’re working toward giving the US government the power to do anything it wants to me (a non-US person) and calling it “alignment”.
Maybe we’ll see an alliance of Butlerian jihadis with the real jihadis!