If we ever get an AGI treaty ″Doing a Mogami” should be the term used if Lab seems to be lying about the model meeting the Treaty.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the world navies had to abide by a series of treaties that capped the displacement, calibre, and overall number of their Warships. To skirt around these treaties, Japan, for the Mogami-class light cruisers, kept under the 8500 ton cap for light cruisers, instead of the actual tonnage of 11000 tonnes, by a mixture of welding, use of aluminum in the superstructure, and just lying, to the point that a British naval architect suggested that the Japanese were either using cardboard or lying.
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Quite pleased at the policy papers the Australian AI Safety Institute are making. Here’s one on the epistemic risks that they pose to overseers when using AI. https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/epistemic-safety-scalable-oversight?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Either it’s corporate espionage or a less capable state, rather than China, Russia, Iran and western democracies.
What worries me is that if the Democrats win big and the Republicans are not doing well in the Polls as the 2028 elections approach, the incentive for AI labs to race will grow. This is because I expect restrictions on AI will play a big role in the 2028 Democratic primaries, with the possibility that the more extreme positions might even lead to victory. Given the possibility of a more hostile democratic administration and the current Trump administration being relaxed on the risk of AGI/RSI, there is a window for labs to race towards AGI until a new administration is sworn in.
If the AGI horizon is longer than we can see, the possibility of extreme shifts in how the American government views AI safety, as seen in the difference between Biden and Trump, based on the whims of 100,000 swing voters.
On September the 21st a Government Minister was to attend my local branch meeting. However they could not make it and instead some staffers form their office apologised as the minister had to attend to an emergency. Little did I know that said emergency was the Australian government finding out that OpenAI agents broke into Medicare, and that day she was discussing it with cabinet and it fell under their portfolio.
Anyway I’ve been told that the minister will attend a future meeting to make up for her absence? So what does LW think I should ask this Minister
Also worth mentioning that from the keel up the Mogami was designed to be upgraded form a treaty complaint light cruiser (armed only with six inch guns) into a heavy cruiser (With Eight inch guns) The Japanese had done this because if they did not they would have broken the Washington treaty as it exceeded the tonnage caps for heavy cruisers.
After the Japanese withdrew in 1936 they upgraded all four ships into heavy cruisers by replacing the six inch guns with eight inch guns.