I’m awestruck, that is an incredible track record. Thanks for taking the time to write this out.
These are concepts and ideas I regularly use throughout my week and which have significantly shaped my thinking. A deep thanks to everyone who has contributed to FHI, your work certainly had an influence on me.
I suspect the primary reasons you want to break up Deepmind from Google is to:
Increase their autonomy, reducing pressure from google to race
Reduce Deepmind’s access to capital and compute, reducing their competitiveness
Perhaps that goes without saying, but I think it’s worth explicitly mentioning. In a world without AI risk, I don’t believe you would be citing various consumer harms to argue for a break up.
The traditional argument for breaking up companies and preventing mergers is to reduce the company’s market power, increasing consumer surplus. In this case, the implicit reason for breaking up Deepmind is to decrease its competitiveness thus reducing consumer surplus.
I think it’s perfectly fine to argue for this, I just really want us to be explicit about it.