AI Safety (in the broadest possible sense, i.e. including ethics & bias) is going be taken very seriously soon by Government decision makers in many countries. But without high quality talent staying in their home countries (i.e. not moving to UK or US), there is a reasonable chance that x/c-risk won’t be considered problems worth trying to solve. X/c-risk sympathisers need seats at the table. IMO local AIS movement builders should be thinking hard about how to either keep talent local (if they’re experiencing brain drain) OR increase the amount of local talent coming into x/c-risk Safety, such that outgoing talent leakage isn’t a problem.
What types of influence do you think governments from small, low influence countries will be able to have?
For example, the NZ government—aren’t they price-takers when it comes to AI regulation? If you’re not a significant player, don’t have significant resources to commit to the problem, and don’t have any national GenAI companies—how will they influence the development trajectory of AI?
That’s one way, but countries’s (and other body’s) concerns are made up of both their citizens/participants concerns and other people’s concerns. one is valued differently from the other, but there’s other ways of keeping relevant actors away from not thinking its a problem. (namely, utilizing the UN.) you make a good point though.
AI Safety (in the broadest possible sense, i.e. including ethics & bias) is going be taken very seriously soon by Government decision makers in many countries. But without high quality talent staying in their home countries (i.e. not moving to UK or US), there is a reasonable chance that x/c-risk won’t be considered problems worth trying to solve. X/c-risk sympathisers need seats at the table. IMO local AIS movement builders should be thinking hard about how to either keep talent local (if they’re experiencing brain drain) OR increase the amount of local talent coming into x/c-risk Safety, such that outgoing talent leakage isn’t a problem.
What types of influence do you think governments from small, low influence countries will be able to have?
For example, the NZ government—aren’t they price-takers when it comes to AI regulation? If you’re not a significant player, don’t have significant resources to commit to the problem, and don’t have any national GenAI companies—how will they influence the development trajectory of AI?
That’s one way, but countries’s (and other body’s) concerns are made up of both their citizens/participants concerns and other people’s concerns. one is valued differently from the other, but there’s other ways of keeping relevant actors away from not thinking its a problem. (namely, utilizing the UN.) you make a good point though.