MichaelA🔸 comments on 2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

[MichaelA🔸]

Thanks for writing this!

I think the link at the end of this passage is incorrect—it goes to Truthful AI. I think maybe you meant to link to this?

GAA’s Nuclear Espionage and AI Governance provides an overview of the impact of communist spies on the Manhattan project, and some potential lessons for AI safety. It suggests that spying is more important if the scaling hypothesis is false and if AI projects are nationalised (as then nationalism could be a motivator, and groups might need to steal hardware rather if they can’t buy it). It seems that generally spying is bad, but he does note that secrecy tends to beget secrecy, and could be hard to combine with interpretability, which might be important for alignment. See also the discussion here. #Strategy