Your hypothetical EA sounds kind of like an abolitionist to me :)
The Society formed a ways-and-means committee to deal with the difficulty that more than half of the members, including Troup and Jay, owned slaves (mostly a few domestic servants per household). The committee proposed a plan for gradual emancipation: members would free slaves younger than 28 when they reached the age of 35, slaves between 28 and 38 in seven years’ time, and slaves over 45 immediately. This proposal failed however, and the committee was dissolved.
What you quoted is more like voluntary safety commitments— I think both anti-slavery and AI Safety should not be left to the whims of the guilty parties to carry out.
Your hypothetical EA sounds kind of like an abolitionist to me :)
This isn’t abolitionism. Manumission means “letting go”.
“Its mandate was to promote gradual emancipation”
Yeah, freeing slaves, but not necessarily abolishing the institution. I’m not trying to be difficult— I think this difference in goals is the point.
And it’s fine if you want to bite the bullet and say you wouldn’t be a radical abolitionist, but most modern people think they would have.
What you quoted is more like voluntary safety commitments— I think both anti-slavery and AI Safety should not be left to the whims of the guilty parties to carry out.
Yeah, I agree that the hypothetical EA seems less like a “radical” abolitionist (for some definition of “radical”).