Slowing Down AI

TagLast edit: 30 Dec 2024 10:16 UTC by Dakara

Slowing Down AI refers to efforts and proposals aimed at reducing the pace of artificial intelligence advancement to allow more time for safety research and governance frameworks. These initiatives can include voluntary industry commitments, regulatory measures, or coordinated pauses in development of advanced AI systems.

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC

680 points

138 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Let’s think about slowing down AI

KatjaGrace22 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC

552 points

182 comments38 min readLW link 3 reviews

(aiimpacts.org)

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2023 0:36 UTC

268 points

44 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Slowing AI: Reading list

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Apr 2023 14:30 UTC

47 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Slowing AI: Foundations

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Apr 2023 14:30 UTC

45 points

11 comments17 min readLW link

Leverage points for a pause

Remmelt28 Aug 2024 9:21 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The public supports regulating AI for safety

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Feb 2023 4:10 UTC

114 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Excessive AI growth-rate yields little socio-economic benefit.

Cleo Nardo4 Apr 2023 19:13 UTC

27 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

AI Summer Harvest

Cleo Nardo4 Apr 2023 3:35 UTC

130 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Most People Don’t Realize We Have No Idea How Our AIs Work

Thane Ruthenis21 Dec 2023 20:02 UTC

159 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

List of requests for an AI slowdown/halt.

Cleo Nardo14 Apr 2023 23:55 UTC

46 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Ways to buy time

Orpheus16, OliviaJ and Thomas Larsen

12 Nov 2022 19:31 UTC

34 points

23 comments12 min readLW link

Cruxes on US lead for some domestic AI regulation

Zach Stein-Perlman10 Sep 2023 18:00 UTC

26 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Is principled mass-outreach possible, for AGI X-risk?

Nicholas / Heather Kross21 Jan 2024 17:45 UTC

9 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

New survey: 46% of Americans are concerned about extinction from AI; 69% support a six-month pause in AI development

Orpheus165 Apr 2023 1:26 UTC

46 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(today.yougov.com)

The 0.2 OOMs/year target

Cleo Nardo30 Mar 2023 18:15 UTC

84 points

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[Question] What’s the deal with Effective Accelerationism (e/acc)?

RomanHauksson6 Apr 2023 4:03 UTC

23 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

[Crosspost] Unveiling the American Public Opinion on AI Moratorium and Government Intervention: The Impact of Media Exposure

otto.barten8 May 2023 14:09 UTC

7 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Horizontal and Vertical Integration

Jeffrey Heninger1 Jul 2023 1:15 UTC

17 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

We’re not prepared for an AI market crash

Remmelt1 Apr 2025 4:33 UTC

50 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

CoreWeave Is A Time Bomb

Remmelt31 Mar 2025 3:52 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.wheresyoured.at)

OpenAI lost $5 billion in 2024 (and its losses are increasing)

Remmelt31 Mar 2025 4:17 UTC

26 points

15 comments12 min readLW link

(www.wheresyoured.at)

My Current Thoughts on the AI Strategic Landscape

Jeffrey Heninger28 Sep 2023 17:59 UTC

11 points

28 comments14 min readLW link

AI pause/governance advocacy might be net-negative, especially without a focus on explaining x-risk

Mikhail Samin27 Aug 2023 23:05 UTC

72 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

The International PauseAI Protest: Activism under uncertainty

Joseph Miller12 Oct 2023 17:36 UTC

32 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

I Would Have Solved Alignment, But I Was Worried That Would Advance Timelines

307th20 Oct 2023 16:37 UTC

122 points

33 comments9 min readLW link

List #1: Why stopping the development of AGI is hard but doable

Remmelt24 Dec 2022 9:52 UTC

6 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

List #2: Why coordinating to align as humans to not develop AGI is a lot easier than, well… coordinating as humans with AGI coordinating to be aligned with humans

Remmelt24 Dec 2022 9:53 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Nine Points of Collective Insanity

Remmelt and flandry19

27 Dec 2022 3:14 UTC

−2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

How ‘Human-Human’ dynamics give way to ‘Human-AI’ and then ‘AI-AI’ dynamics

Remmelt and flandry19

27 Dec 2022 3:16 UTC

−2 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

Institutions Cannot Restrain Dark-Triad AI Exploitation

Remmelt and flandry19

27 Dec 2022 10:34 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

How harmful are improvements in AI? + Poll

tilmanr and Marius Hobbhahn

15 Feb 2022 18:16 UTC

15 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Accurate Models of AI Risk Are Hyperexistential Exfohazards

Thane Ruthenis25 Dec 2022 16:50 UTC

33 points

38 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] If AI is in a bubble and the bubble bursts, what would you do?

Remmelt19 Aug 2024 10:56 UTC

12 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Some reasons to start a project to stop harmful AI

Remmelt22 Aug 2024 16:23 UTC

5 points

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Fifteen Lawsuits against OpenAI

Remmelt9 Mar 2024 12:22 UTC

27 points

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An EA used deceptive messaging to advance their project; we need mechanisms to avoid deontologically dubious plans

Mikhail Samin13 Feb 2024 23:15 UTC

24 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Anthropic is being sued for copying books to train Claude

Remmelt31 Aug 2024 2:57 UTC

20 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)

Who wants to bet me $25k at 1:7 odds that there won’t be an AI market crash in the next year?

Remmelt8 Apr 2025 8:31 UTC

32 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Crash scenario 1: Rapidly mobilise for a 2025 AI crash

Remmelt11 Apr 2025 6:54 UTC

12 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

An AI crash is our best bet for restricting AI

Remmelt11 Oct 2024 2:12 UTC

26 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Why Stop AI is barricading OpenAI

Remmelt14 Oct 2024 7:12 UTC

−16 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

OpenAI defected, but we can take honest actions

Remmelt21 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC

17 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Ex-OpenAI researcher says OpenAI mass-violated copyright law

Remmelt24 Oct 2024 1:00 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(suchir.net)

New AI safety treaty paper out!

otto.barten26 Mar 2025 9:29 UTC

15 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

List of petitions against OpenAI’s for-profit move

Remmelt25 Apr 2025 10:03 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Map of all 40 copyright suits v. AI in U.S.

Remmelt26 Mar 2025 7:57 UTC

39 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(chatgptiseatingtheworld.com)

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