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One of the things that I find truly bizarre and makes me very suspicious of this whole "let's stop working on AI now, for our own good" discourse is how its proponents don't seem willing to address the elephant in the room -- the CCP.

The most comical part of the letter is precisely when they "call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months... If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium."

Governments? Like the Chinese government you mean? LOL

Moon 2y ago

AI research is just like everything else that’s digital, unstoppable once its in the wild. Fact of the matter is there are simply too many hands on this across governments, corporations, universities, research institution, military operations, etc - globally - for any proposed “pause” to be implemented with any efficacy.

The CCP already blocks ChatGPT - my friends there use VPN to access it. But at the same time the CCP is certainly running it own “state-directed” AI programs which can be seen and felt in their surveillance and restriction technology - they are certainly not going to stop or pause development and to the extent they can they will export this.

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hh 2y ago

Exactly. Especially when you say that they will export their version of AI to their colonial satellites in Africa, Latin America, etc.

So the only reasonable way to counter that is to let the Western private sector to keep working on it, faster and harder even, so we have not one, but many versions of it, publicly and openly available to everyone, per market demand.

The problem with people like those whose signed that stupid letter, many of which are "experts", is that in the end they suffer the same intellectual malaise - they truly believe that THEY can plan sucessfully. If only THEY were in charge...

Moon 2y ago

Spot on! I just sent another note on this thread. I think we converge onto the exact same point here.