Exactly. @OmarSAlolama
, the UAE Minister of AI, uses that historical tidbit all the time to highlight the deleterious effects of obscurantism.
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UAE AI Minister Highlights Obscurantism’s Negative Effects
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Dystopian AI Fiction: Separating Reality from Narrative
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AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park: International Cooperation Era
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: AI safety summit at Bletchley Park: A New Era of International Cooperation in AI Safety? https://
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Knowledge Access and Obscurantism in AI Era
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Regulation risks: when advocacy may increase danger
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If advocating for regulation makes the risk greater, we shouldn't do it. That's not naive – it's just a simple and clear factual statement.
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Governments Must Establish VR Safety Councils Urgently
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governments should discuss VR safety councils before this gets out of hand
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Regulation Risk Trade-offs in AI Policy
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No, if advocating for regulation makes the risk greater, we shouldn't do it.
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Does AI Regulation Advocacy Help or Harm Existential Risk?
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My request is simply that @geoffreyhinton and others advocating for regulation directly and rigorously tackle the question of whether their advocacy is helpful, or harmful, in terms of its impact on existential risk.
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Pink Floyd’s Wall: AI Ethics and Social Control Critique
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Does AI regulation increase or decrease human extinction risk?
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Surely the far more important question is:
Do you think advocating for strong regulation makes human extinction more likely, or less likely? This is something I've never seen any advocate of this path tackle with any rigor whatsoever.