There is a key point on which I agree strongly with advocates for an AI pause: there is a massive moral urgency in ensuring that we do not end up with horrific AI-controlled outcomes. Too few people appreciate this insight, and even fewer seem to be deeply moved by it.
At the same time, I think there is a similarly massive urgency in ensuring that we do not end up with horrific human-controlled outcomes. And humanity’s current trajectory is unfortunately not all that reassuring with respect to either of these broad classes of risks …
The upshot for me is that there is a roughly equal moral urgency in avoiding each of these categories of worst-case risks
But he does not justify this equality. It seems highly likely to me that ASI-induced s-risks are on a much larger scale than human-induced ones (down to ASI being much more powerful than humanity), creating a (massive) asymmetry in favour of preventing ASI.
Vinding says:
But he does not justify this equality. It seems highly likely to me that ASI-induced s-risks are on a much larger scale than human-induced ones (down to ASI being much more powerful than humanity), creating a (massive) asymmetry in favour of preventing ASI.