>There is no reason to pause any AI development. Quite honestly there is very little appetite to be left last.
reply"According to survey results released on Wednesday, 68% of [likely US voters] said they would support the proposal to temporarily pause advanced AI development and permanently prohibit the development of superintelligent programs, while just 25% said they’d oppose it."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-casar-ai-bill-poll
>Eg in a hypothetical armed convenience store theft: We don't prosecute the gun manufacturer, we prosecute the individual using the weapon for crime. Same deal here.
So if I ask ChatGPT to make me some paperclips, and it replaces all the matter in a nearby city with paperclips, who gets prosecuted: me, or OpenAI?
In this stretch of a hypothetical, you the user
replyWell in that case, OpenAI has reduced incentive to solve the alignment problem, since it won't suffer liability from alignment failures.
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