research to better control AIs being far easier than research to control humans
Sorry to nitpick, but this is a bad and dangerous assumption. Just because you don’t have access to information about research to control humans, doesn’t mean that research doesn’t exist. Not all lines of research have an intrinsic tendency to get open-sourced.
It’s not that research about controlling/influencing humans is super secret, it’s just that civilization is currently in a state where most people don’t know where to start. A great example of a research starter is chapter 1 and 4 of Joseph Nye’s Soft Power (2005) which is critical for geopolitical forecasting, especially for AI geopolitics in the US-China, because it demonstrates that, unlike conventional and nuclear war, information wars can actually be fought and won by today’s global powers without mutually assured destruction, incentivizing more interest from intelligence agencies relative to interest in conventional military force. Most people in the 2020s know that politicians lie in order to steer public opinion, many fewer people knew that in the 1950s even though it was an open secret back then too. It follows that there are probably other open secrets in the 2020s that most people don’t know about.
Sorry to nitpick, but this is a bad and dangerous assumption. Just because you don’t have access to information about research to control humans, doesn’t mean that research doesn’t exist. Not all lines of research have an intrinsic tendency to get open-sourced.
It’s not that research about controlling/influencing humans is super secret, it’s just that civilization is currently in a state where most people don’t know where to start. A great example of a research starter is chapter 1 and 4 of Joseph Nye’s Soft Power (2005) which is critical for geopolitical forecasting, especially for AI geopolitics in the US-China, because it demonstrates that, unlike conventional and nuclear war, information wars can actually be fought and won by today’s global powers without mutually assured destruction, incentivizing more interest from intelligence agencies relative to interest in conventional military force. Most people in the 2020s know that politicians lie in order to steer public opinion, many fewer people knew that in the 1950s even though it was an open secret back then too. It follows that there are probably other open secrets in the 2020s that most people don’t know about.