(FYI I’m the ED of PauseAI US and we have our own website pauseai-us.org)
1. It is on every actor morally to do the right thing by not advancing dangerous capabilities separate from whether everyone else does it, even though everyone pausing and then agreeing to safe development standards is the ideal solution. That’s what that language refers to. I’m very careful about taking positions as an org, but, personally, I also think unilateral pauses would make the world safer compared to no pauses by slowing worldwide development. In particular, if the US were to pause capabilities development, our competitors wouldn’t have our frontier research to follow/imitate, and it would take other countries longer to generate those insights themselves.
2. “PauseAI NOW” is not just the simplest and best message to coordinate around, it’s also an assertion that we are ALREADY in too much danger. You pause FIRST, then sort out the technical details.
(FYI I’m the ED of PauseAI US and we have our own website pauseai-us.org)
1. It is on every actor morally to do the right thing by not advancing dangerous capabilities separate from whether everyone else does it, even though everyone pausing and then agreeing to safe development standards is the ideal solution. That’s what that language refers to. I’m very careful about taking positions as an org, but, personally, I also think unilateral pauses would make the world safer compared to no pauses by slowing worldwide development. In particular, if the US were to pause capabilities development, our competitors wouldn’t have our frontier research to follow/imitate, and it would take other countries longer to generate those insights themselves.
2. “PauseAI NOW” is not just the simplest and best message to coordinate around, it’s also an assertion that we are ALREADY in too much danger. You pause FIRST, then sort out the technical details.