Executive summary: AI developers should dedicate a significant portion of their growing “cognitive assets” (the quantity and quality of artificial cognition at their disposal) towards defensive acceleration to increase humanity’s chances of avoiding AI catastrophic risks while reaping AI’s benefits.
Key points:
AI developers’ cognitive assets (the total tokens their AI systems can generate and the real-world value those tokens create) will likely grow rapidly in the coming years.
Competitive pressures and incentives could push developers to spend cognitive assets in ways that accelerate AI progress and increase existential risk, potentially leading to a rapid AI “explosion” that disempowers humanity if we are unprepared.
Developers should proactively plan to spend a non-trivial fraction of cognitive assets on defensive acceleration: alignment research, governance frameworks, and defense-oriented technologies to navigate the development of transformative AI more safely.
Implementing defensive acceleration faces challenges, including competitive disadvantages for safety-conscious developers and the collective action problem, but developers could coordinate via shared principles or unilateral commitments.
Despite the allure of selling cognitive assets to the highest bidders, developers aspiring to safely usher in transformative AI should carefully consider the high stakes involved and credibly commit to defensive acceleration.
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Executive summary: AI developers should dedicate a significant portion of their growing “cognitive assets” (the quantity and quality of artificial cognition at their disposal) towards defensive acceleration to increase humanity’s chances of avoiding AI catastrophic risks while reaping AI’s benefits.
Key points:
AI developers’ cognitive assets (the total tokens their AI systems can generate and the real-world value those tokens create) will likely grow rapidly in the coming years.
Competitive pressures and incentives could push developers to spend cognitive assets in ways that accelerate AI progress and increase existential risk, potentially leading to a rapid AI “explosion” that disempowers humanity if we are unprepared.
Developers should proactively plan to spend a non-trivial fraction of cognitive assets on defensive acceleration: alignment research, governance frameworks, and defense-oriented technologies to navigate the development of transformative AI more safely.
Implementing defensive acceleration faces challenges, including competitive disadvantages for safety-conscious developers and the collective action problem, but developers could coordinate via shared principles or unilateral commitments.
Despite the allure of selling cognitive assets to the highest bidders, developers aspiring to safely usher in transformative AI should carefully consider the high stakes involved and credibly commit to defensive acceleration.
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