He’s in the middle of both 3 personal corruption trials and a so-called “judicial overhaul” by his coalition (which we opposed to it call an autocratic coup attempt). He might say he’s interested in doing this or that, but in reality his coalition is solely focused on this judicial overhaul and on the narrow needs of Ultra-orthodox party leaders.
He’s been a politician for a few decades, and he’s the longest serving prime minister in Israeli history. During that time he’s earned a reputation as someone whose words and actions are utterly disconnected from eachother. Moreover, even his messages to foreign and domestic media are often very different from eachother.
He’s a hard neoliberal from the Chicago school. He’s not randomly mentioning competition—it’s the only thing he cares about. “[Concentrating] enormous wealth and power with smaller and smaller number of people” on the other hand is something he has absolutely no problem with. He’s done that for himself in our political context, and he loves befriending billionaires whose money and influence he can use for personal gain.
As I mentioned, he’s the longest serving prime minister in our history. None of his governments has ever tried to deal with existential or catastrophic risks of any kind. It’s not in his dictionary. The only ‘existential threat’ from his perspective is Iran.
Israel is extremely reluctant to do anything that’s not for its own benefit. I guess it might be a remnant of Europe trying to kill all our grandparents.
So, even though there’s some activity starting here in academic circles (mostly thanks to David Manheim), I wouldn’t count on the Israeli government to move even a finger about it anytime soon.
AI restrictions and bans thus create market opportunities for Israel et al right? For example, the government of Japan has stated they will not enforce copyright law against llms. This means that countries that have a permissive regulatory framework could become the world centers of excellence for AGI and robotics development, and only production grade products get exported to the EU after complying with all the regulatory requirements after the AI product has been proven effective.
Or in more extreme cases, AI may used as a tool to do high value engineering work and polities like the EU have to trade lower value resources and land for access to the results of that work. Engineers in the EU wouldn’t even have access to use the best models, since even the best models will occasionally make an error the model developers do not want to be liable for.
Not a good economic position to be in.
(I point out the eu specifically because they appear to be the most likely polity to enact onerous AI restrictions. This would kill their domestic industry)
Some context on Netanyahu:
He’s in the middle of both 3 personal corruption trials and a so-called “judicial overhaul” by his coalition (which we opposed to it call an autocratic coup attempt). He might say he’s interested in doing this or that, but in reality his coalition is solely focused on this judicial overhaul and on the narrow needs of Ultra-orthodox party leaders.
He’s been a politician for a few decades, and he’s the longest serving prime minister in Israeli history. During that time he’s earned a reputation as someone whose words and actions are utterly disconnected from eachother. Moreover, even his messages to foreign and domestic media are often very different from eachother.
He’s a hard neoliberal from the Chicago school. He’s not randomly mentioning competition—it’s the only thing he cares about. “[Concentrating] enormous wealth and power with smaller and smaller number of people” on the other hand is something he has absolutely no problem with. He’s done that for himself in our political context, and he loves befriending billionaires whose money and influence he can use for personal gain.
As I mentioned, he’s the longest serving prime minister in our history. None of his governments has ever tried to deal with existential or catastrophic risks of any kind. It’s not in his dictionary. The only ‘existential threat’ from his perspective is Iran.
Israel is extremely reluctant to do anything that’s not for its own benefit. I guess it might be a remnant of Europe trying to kill all our grandparents.
So, even though there’s some activity starting here in academic circles (mostly thanks to David Manheim), I wouldn’t count on the Israeli government to move even a finger about it anytime soon.
AI restrictions and bans thus create market opportunities for Israel et al right? For example, the government of Japan has stated they will not enforce copyright law against llms. This means that countries that have a permissive regulatory framework could become the world centers of excellence for AGI and robotics development, and only production grade products get exported to the EU after complying with all the regulatory requirements after the AI product has been proven effective.
Or in more extreme cases, AI may used as a tool to do high value engineering work and polities like the EU have to trade lower value resources and land for access to the results of that work. Engineers in the EU wouldn’t even have access to use the best models, since even the best models will occasionally make an error the model developers do not want to be liable for.
Not a good economic position to be in.
(I point out the eu specifically because they appear to be the most likely polity to enact onerous AI restrictions. This would kill their domestic industry)