Ulrik—I agree with you that ‘History seem less seldom to judge harshly those who just were seeking to help people clearly in need with limited scope, whereas people or small groups with grand ideas of revolutionizing the world often seem to end up as history’s antagonists.’
It’s important to note that the AI industry promoters who advocate rushing full speed ahead towards AGI are a typical example of ‘small groups with grand ideas of revolutionizing the world’, eg by promising that AGI will solve climate change, solve aging, create mass prosperity, eliminate the need to work, etc. They are the dreamy utopians who are willing to take huge risks and dangers on everybody else, to impose their vision of an ideal society.
The people advocating an AI Pause (like me) are focused on a ‘very small targeted intervention’ of the sort that you support: shut down the handful of companies, involving just a few thousand researchers, in just a few cities, who are rushing towards AGI.
Ulrik—I agree with you that ‘History seem less seldom to judge harshly those who just were seeking to help people clearly in need with limited scope, whereas people or small groups with grand ideas of revolutionizing the world often seem to end up as history’s antagonists.’
It’s important to note that the AI industry promoters who advocate rushing full speed ahead towards AGI are a typical example of ‘small groups with grand ideas of revolutionizing the world’, eg by promising that AGI will solve climate change, solve aging, create mass prosperity, eliminate the need to work, etc. They are the dreamy utopians who are willing to take huge risks and dangers on everybody else, to impose their vision of an ideal society.
The people advocating an AI Pause (like me) are focused on a ‘very small targeted intervention’ of the sort that you support: shut down the handful of companies, involving just a few thousand researchers, in just a few cities, who are rushing towards AGI.
Yes I agree. Apologies for responding to the other comment on this post in the reply to your comment—I think that created unnecessary confusion.
Ulrik—thanks; understood!