Thanks very much to @NeelGuha and others for producing this. Much needed expertise at the interface of tech and policy cutting through some of the fantastical solutions we've heard and giving pragmatic alternatives.
POLICY
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Computer Science Lacks Professional Maturity Like Medicine or Law
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Computer science is not a mature profession like medicine, law, engineering or accounting. The latter have accreditation, certifications, licensing, codes of ethics, professional societies, etc. The field underlying AI is different from the field underlying pharma
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Rumor: Q-Star bypasses encryption, OpenAI alerts NSA
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Rumor is that Q-Star figured out a way to break encryption, and OpenAI tried to warn the NSA about it. Here’s a Google doc link to a compilation of (allegedly) leaked documents and compelling analysis https://
docs.google.com/document/u/0/d
/1RyVP2i9wlQkpotvMXWJES7ATKXjUTIwW2ASVxApDAsA/mobilebasic
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Google Antitrust: News Corp’s Strategic Silence on Competition
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Reminds me of when News Corp was "stunned by the detailed evidence of anti-competitive behavior and the damning allegations of serious collusion" after state AGs filed the Google antitrust suit in 2020. (They've had deals since then, but just a thought.)
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Fast AI Medical Breakthroughs vs Safety Concerns Ethics
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I’m not arguing against those, at this point. But, what do you say to someone who has cancer or schizophrenia (etc.) and will die in a few months, if no new good cure is found? Last hope is fast new discoveries here. Why would you delay that, for arguments based on lies to
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Utilitarian AI Ethics: Addressing Historical Harms and Future Risks
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Your notes justly point out the amazing things done by the first, without grappling with the major problems of the 2nd, or with the historical horrors of unfettered utilitarianism in general.
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Monopoly Fight and AI Progress: A Worker’s Perspective
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Proletariat of the world unite! We must fight the sandwich shop monopoly! (maybe if more loonies join that battle they will stop trying to slow down AI).
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Safety Plan Criticism: Promise Not Policy
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That’s not a safety plan, nor a policy plan. It’s a promissory note. https://
x.com/ylecun/status/
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Democratic Process Establishes Good Bad Standards
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We have a democratic process to establish what constitutes "good" and "bad".
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Regulating Bad AI Through Law Enforcement and Legal Frameworks
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No.
It's like every society: you stop the bad guys AI with laws and law enforcement, i.e. with a well-equiped and well-trained AI police. The American trope refers to people taking the law into their own hands.
Bad idea.