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I’d love to help do more research in this space? I wrote this on the topic last week:

https://​​connoraxiotes.substack.com/​​p/​​the-uk-government-needs-to-protect

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On the competition vs caution approach, I think that often people assume government is a homogenous entity, when instead there are very different parts of government with very different remits and some remits are naturally aligned with a caution approach and others to a competition approach.

• ‘Build relationships with leading AI researchers and organizations, so that future crises can be handled relatively smoothly.’

Regarding the above quote, is it fair to say that AI labs have neglected this?

I think there needs to be more work on cultivating this relationship—the direct one between legislators and their closest advisors and the AI labs. Those political actors with the direct levers to legislate for and have the biggest impact on AI regulation.

Because when/​if things kick off (AGI development becomes scary or even just AI development becomes scary), AI labs that have cultivated this relationship are probably better positioned to make safety-based asks of a Government they have at least been trying to connect with.

The best connected to a Government AI lab might be OpenAI (arguably) - do we think they are the optimal AI lab for dictating/​influencing AI safety policy? Or would we prefer a more diverse mix of AI labs perhaps more interested in the safety side… If so: other AI labs need to start cultivating these relationships!