Manuel—it may not be likely that we can impose a very long pause (on the order of centuries).
My main goal in proposing that was to remind people that with AI, we’re talking about a ‘major evolutionary transition’ comparable to the evolution of multicellular life, or the evolution of human intelligence. Normally these take place on the time-span of hundreds of thousands of years to tens of millions of years.
If AI development holds all the potential upside that we hope for, but it also threatens some of the downside risks that we dread, it may be useful to be thinking on these evolutionary time scales. Rather than the ‘quarterly profit’ schedules that many Big Tech companies think about.
Manuel—it may not be likely that we can impose a very long pause (on the order of centuries).
My main goal in proposing that was to remind people that with AI, we’re talking about a ‘major evolutionary transition’ comparable to the evolution of multicellular life, or the evolution of human intelligence. Normally these take place on the time-span of hundreds of thousands of years to tens of millions of years.
If AI development holds all the potential upside that we hope for, but it also threatens some of the downside risks that we dread, it may be useful to be thinking on these evolutionary time scales. Rather than the ‘quarterly profit’ schedules that many Big Tech companies think about.