we’ve had two presidents now who actively tried to counteract mainstream views on climate-change, and they haven’t budged climate scientists at all.
I have updated in your direction.
Of course, AI alignment is substantially more scientifically accepted and defensible than climate skepticism.
Yep.
You only mean this as a possibility in the future, if there is any point where AGI is believed to be imminent, right?
No I meant starting today. My impression is that coalition-building in Washington is tedious work. Scientists agreed to avoid gene editing in humans well before it was possible (I think). In part, that might have made it easier since the distantness of it meant fewer people were researching it to begin with. If AGI is a larger part of an established field, it seems much harder to build a consensus to stop doing it.
FWIW I don’t think that would be a good move. I don’t feel like fully arguing it now, but main points (1) sooner AGI development could well be better despite risk, (2) such restrictions are hard to reverse for a long time after the fact, as the story of human gene editing shows, (3) AGI research is hard to define—arguably, some people are doing it already.
I have updated in your direction.
Yep.
No I meant starting today. My impression is that coalition-building in Washington is tedious work. Scientists agreed to avoid gene editing in humans well before it was possible (I think). In part, that might have made it easier since the distantness of it meant fewer people were researching it to begin with. If AGI is a larger part of an established field, it seems much harder to build a consensus to stop doing it.
FWIW I don’t think that would be a good move. I don’t feel like fully arguing it now, but main points (1) sooner AGI development could well be better despite risk, (2) such restrictions are hard to reverse for a long time after the fact, as the story of human gene editing shows, (3) AGI research is hard to define—arguably, some people are doing it already.