Next week for the 80k Podcast I'm speaking with Ezra Klein (here our first interview).
The topic is what we should do about AI — in particular governance and policy ideas.
What claims and proposals do you think I should ask him about?
Here's some recent columns he has written on the toipc:
- Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind
- The Surprising Thing A.I. Engineers Will Tell You if You Let Them
- This Changes Everything
- The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About
And some interviews:
What does Ezra think of the 'startup government mindset' when it comes to responding to fast moving situations, e.g. The UK explicitly modelling its own response off the COVID Vaccine taskforce, doing end runs around traditional bureaucratic institutions, recruiting quickly through Google docs etc. See e.g. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2azxasXxuhXvGfdW2/ai-17-the-litany
Is it just hype and translating a startup mindset to government when it doesn't apply or actually useful here?