Executive summary: The AI safety community’s power-seeking strategies may face increasing backlash and challenges, necessitating a shift towards more cooperative approaches focused on legitimacy and competence.
Key points:
The AI safety community is unusually structurally power-seeking due to its consequentialist mindset, sense of urgency, and elite focus.
This power-seeking tendency faces strong defense mechanisms from the wider world, leading to various forms of backlash.
As AI becomes more important, power struggles over its control will intensify, making power-seeking strategies riskier.
To mitigate these issues, the AI safety community should focus more on building legitimacy and prioritizing broad competence.
Informing the public and creating mechanisms to prevent power concentration in the face of AGI may be more effective than current strategies.
As AI capabilities and risks become less speculative, decision-makers’ ability to respond to confusing situations will become increasingly important.
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Executive summary: The AI safety community’s power-seeking strategies may face increasing backlash and challenges, necessitating a shift towards more cooperative approaches focused on legitimacy and competence.
Key points:
The AI safety community is unusually structurally power-seeking due to its consequentialist mindset, sense of urgency, and elite focus.
This power-seeking tendency faces strong defense mechanisms from the wider world, leading to various forms of backlash.
As AI becomes more important, power struggles over its control will intensify, making power-seeking strategies riskier.
To mitigate these issues, the AI safety community should focus more on building legitimacy and prioritizing broad competence.
Informing the public and creating mechanisms to prevent power concentration in the face of AGI may be more effective than current strategies.
As AI capabilities and risks become less speculative, decision-makers’ ability to respond to confusing situations will become increasingly important.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.