I'd love to get his take on coalition differences with the AI Ethics people since he had Alondra Nelson on the Ezra Klein Show and the more mainstream critics of AI Safety.
Moreover, his opinion on the distraction arguments forwarded by AI Ethics people.
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?
I have thoroughly analyzed and provided an overview of both the AI Bill of Rights and the EU AI Act. In light of this, I'm genuinely intrigued to hear Ezra's insightful perspective on the possible challenges that these frameworks might encounter and the specific hurdles they would need to overcome in order to be successfully implemented. His thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated, as I believe they would contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the potential obstacles facing AI governance and policy.
Crossposted to Less Wrong
‘Like most of life’s dangers, the dangers of artificial intelligence are not easily identified from the armchair.’
J Dmitri Gallow
Epistemic status
I’m not an expert in this field, and herein I make some sweeping generalisations educated guesses about the overall...
Let’s imagine it’s November 2031. We’re both still here, AI is much more capable than it is today, but governments are governing, civilisation is still (mostly) civilised, and there has been no catastrophic loss of control. It just kind of didn’t happen.
What happens to the AI safety field then?
I expect people who currently believe catastrophe could happen within two or three years will start saying five or ten years. Then 15. Then ‘who cares if we’re a few decades of...
Thanks to Bruce Friedrich, Seth Ariel Green, Tobias Leenaert, Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Martine van Haperen, Herman Rohrbach, Chris Popa and Elizabeth Alvarez for comments. Claude helped structure the text. Ideas and mistakes are my own. I currently work with ProVeg International. The prize I propose would be defined and judged by an independent committee, and its money would fund scaling the winning solution(s), not ProVeg or the winner.
TL/DR
* EA could d...
I'd love to get his take on coalition differences with the AI Ethics people since he had Alondra Nelson on the Ezra Klein Show and the more mainstream critics of AI Safety.
Moreover, his opinion on the distraction arguments forwarded by AI Ethics people.