Executive summary: An economist’s perspective suggests that AI safety should focus on cybersecurity risks that exist on a continuum, rather than solely on risks from a hypothetical superintelligence threshold.
Key points:
Cybersecurity risks from AI exist on a continuum and are significant even before reaching any hypothetical superintelligence threshold.
Cybersecurity is underestimated as a long-term constraint on property rights and has major economic and geopolitical implications.
AI introduces new challenges for cybersecurity due to its analog nature and ability to enable sophisticated social engineering attacks at scale.
The cybersecurity insurance market is underdeveloped relative to the potential harms and could play a key role in mitigating risks and shaping incentives.
Viewing AI safety through an economic lens surfaces important considerations around markets, incentives, regulation, and the interplay between different types of risks.
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Executive summary: An economist’s perspective suggests that AI safety should focus on cybersecurity risks that exist on a continuum, rather than solely on risks from a hypothetical superintelligence threshold.
Key points:
Cybersecurity risks from AI exist on a continuum and are significant even before reaching any hypothetical superintelligence threshold.
Cybersecurity is underestimated as a long-term constraint on property rights and has major economic and geopolitical implications.
AI introduces new challenges for cybersecurity due to its analog nature and ability to enable sophisticated social engineering attacks at scale.
The cybersecurity insurance market is underdeveloped relative to the potential harms and could play a key role in mitigating risks and shaping incentives.
Viewing AI safety through an economic lens surfaces important considerations around markets, incentives, regulation, and the interplay between different types of risks.
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