Is there anything that can put the brakes on? It seems these people are pushing the throttles up when all common sense is telling people to start slowing down.
Is there any way to package this as being a trust gambit, that we need to work together to hash out a framework that includes national, international, and local governance?
I also believe that investment in AI safety lags being investment in AI model development, and we need to work together and recruit others to constantly lobby the government and AI labs to ensure safe alignment now that can be scaled. But I think we lose support in this by sensationalising the issue. There is currently no model that can exercise recursive self improvement that might, even in theory, become sufficiently agentic to threaten existential harm. As far as I know, there is no known LLM scaffold that could create fluid, multi-modal, unified cognition such is to problem-solve to that extent, even if it possessed such a goal. Sure we need to act and seek influence now - and that is what I am working towards on the church of England, with passionate urgency. But I believe we shoot ourselves in the foot by talking up the time frame. 5 years maybe, but not next week. In my opinion!
Is there anything that can put the brakes on? It seems these people are pushing the throttles up when all common sense is telling people to start slowing down.
Is there any way to package this as being a trust gambit, that we need to work together to hash out a framework that includes national, international, and local governance?
I also believe that investment in AI safety lags being investment in AI model development, and we need to work together and recruit others to constantly lobby the government and AI labs to ensure safe alignment now that can be scaled. But I think we lose support in this by sensationalising the issue. There is currently no model that can exercise recursive self improvement that might, even in theory, become sufficiently agentic to threaten existential harm. As far as I know, there is no known LLM scaffold that could create fluid, multi-modal, unified cognition such is to problem-solve to that extent, even if it possessed such a goal. Sure we need to act and seek influence now - and that is what I am working towards on the church of England, with passionate urgency. But I believe we shoot ourselves in the foot by talking up the time frame. 5 years maybe, but not next week. In my opinion!