I definitely think it’s an (the most?) important argument against. Some of this comes down to your views on timelines which I don’t really want to litigate here.
I guess I don’t know how much research leading to digital people is likely to advance AI capabilities. A lot of the early work was of course inspired by biology, but it seems like not much has come of it recently. And it seems to me that we can focus on the research needed to emulate the brain, and try not to understand it in too much detail.
Could we just...keep the WBE research secret? It’d make it harder, but if having detailed knowledge of how the brain works openly available is dangerous, then, it seems like if you can keep the research closed, that mitigates that risk.
I definitely think it’s an (the most?) important argument against. Some of this comes down to your views on timelines which I don’t really want to litigate here.
I guess I don’t know how much research leading to digital people is likely to advance AI capabilities. A lot of the early work was of course inspired by biology, but it seems like not much has come of it recently. And it seems to me that we can focus on the research needed to emulate the brain, and try not to understand it in too much detail.
Could we just...keep the WBE research secret? It’d make it harder, but if having detailed knowledge of how the brain works openly available is dangerous, then, it seems like if you can keep the research closed, that mitigates that risk.