A recent survey of AI alignment researchers found that the most common opinion on the statement “Current alignment research is on track to solve alignment before we get to AGI” was “Somewhat disagree”. The same survey found that most AI alignment researchers also support pausing or slowing down AI progress.
Slowing down AI progress might be net-positive if you take ideas like longtermism seriously but it seems challenging to do given the strong economic incentives to increase AI capabilities. Maybe government policies to limit AI progress will eventually enter the Overton window when AI reaches a certain level of dangerous capability.
A recent survey of AI alignment researchers found that the most common opinion on the statement “Current alignment research is on track to solve alignment before we get to AGI” was “Somewhat disagree”. The same survey found that most AI alignment researchers also support pausing or slowing down AI progress.
Slowing down AI progress might be net-positive if you take ideas like longtermism seriously but it seems challenging to do given the strong economic incentives to increase AI capabilities. Maybe government policies to limit AI progress will eventually enter the Overton window when AI reaches a certain level of dangerous capability.