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AI Pause De­bate (2023)

TagLast edit: 9 Jan 2024 14:34 UTC by tobytrem

The AI Pause Debate was a collection of posts on the costs and benefits of pausing or slowing some kinds of AI progress, plus some relevant advocacy and policy considerations. It occurred in September 2023.

The primary posts in the debate were collected in this sequence.

De­bate se­ries: should we push for a pause on the de­vel­op­ment of AI?

Ben_West8 Sep 2023 16:29 UTC
252 points
58 comments1 min readEA link

Pause For Thought: The AI Pause Debate

Scott Alexander10 Oct 2023 15:34 UTC
108 points
20 comments14 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

The Case for AI Safety Ad­vo­cacy to the Public

Holly_Elmore20 Sep 2023 12:03 UTC
249 points
58 comments14 min readEA link

Com­ments on Man­heim’s “What’s in a Pause?”

RobBensinger18 Sep 2023 12:16 UTC
71 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

Paus­ing AI might be good policy, but it’s bad politics

Stephen Clare23 Oct 2023 13:36 UTC
160 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(unfoldingatlas.substack.com)

Policy ideas for miti­gat­ing AI risk

Thomas Larsen16 Sep 2023 10:31 UTC
117 points
16 comments10 min readEA link

Timelines are short, p(doom) is high: a global stop to fron­tier AI de­vel­op­ment un­til x-safety con­sen­sus is our only rea­son­able hope

Greg_Colbourn12 Oct 2023 11:24 UTC
70 points
84 comments9 min readEA link

How could a mora­to­rium fail?

Davidmanheim22 Sep 2023 15:11 UTC
48 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

It’s not ob­vi­ous that get­ting dan­ger­ous AI later is better

Aaron_Scher23 Sep 2023 5:35 UTC
23 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

What’s in a Pause?

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2023 10:13 UTC
73 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

Aim for con­di­tional pauses

AnonResearcherMajorAILab25 Sep 2023 1:05 UTC
100 points
42 comments12 min readEA link

How to think about slow­ing AI

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Sep 2023 11:23 UTC
74 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

AI Pause Will Likely Backfire

Nora Belrose16 Sep 2023 10:21 UTC
129 points
165 comments13 min readEA link

The pos­si­bil­ity of an in­definite AI pause

Matthew_Barnett19 Sep 2023 12:28 UTC
90 points
73 comments15 min readEA link

We are not alone: many com­mu­ni­ties want to stop Big Tech from scal­ing un­safe AI

Remmelt22 Sep 2023 17:38 UTC
28 points
30 comments4 min readEA link

Mud­dling Along Is More Likely Than Dystopia

Jeffrey Heninger21 Oct 2023 9:30 UTC
87 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Stu­art J. Rus­sell on “should we press pause on AI?”

Kaleem18 Sep 2023 13:19 UTC
32 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(podcasts.apple.com)

The In­ter­na­tional PauseAI Protest: Ac­tivism un­der uncertainty

Joseph Miller12 Oct 2023 17:36 UTC
128 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Unions for AI safety?

dEAsign24 Sep 2023 0:13 UTC
7 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

We’re Not Ready: thoughts on “paus­ing” and re­spon­si­ble scal­ing policies

Holden Karnofsky27 Oct 2023 15:19 UTC
150 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

Effi­cacy of AI Ac­tivism: Have We Ever Said No?

charlieh94327 Oct 2023 16:52 UTC
78 points
25 comments20 min readEA link

How “Pause AI” ad­vo­cacy could be net harmful

Tamsin Leake26 Dec 2023 16:19 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(carado.moe)

The “tech­nol­ogy” bucket error

Holly_Elmore21 Sep 2023 0:59 UTC
33 points
10 comments4 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Paus­ing AI vs De­growth in rich countries

mikbp23 Sep 2023 7:09 UTC
−2 points
53 comments1 min readEA link

AI is cen­tral­iz­ing by de­fault; let’s not make it worse

Quintin Pope21 Sep 2023 13:35 UTC
53 points
16 comments15 min readEA link

Go Mo­bi­lize? Les­sons from GM Protests for Paus­ing AI

charlieh94324 Oct 2023 15:01 UTC
48 points
11 comments31 min readEA link

“We can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nu­clear Catas­tro­phe”

Peter23 Sep 2023 20:36 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(time.com)

Ly­ing is Cowardice, not Strategy

Connor Leahy25 Oct 2023 5:59 UTC
−5 points
15 comments5 min readEA link
(cognition.cafe)

Public Opinion on AI Safety: AIMS 2023 and 2021 Summary

Janet Pauketat25 Sep 2023 18:09 UTC
19 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Care­less talk on US-China AI com­pe­ti­tion? (and crit­i­cism of CAIS cov­er­age)

Oliver Sourbut20 Sep 2023 12:46 UTC
46 points
19 comments1 min readEA link
(www.oliversourbut.net)
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