The Real AI Alignment Problem Is the Race Itself
AI researchers are quitting, labs are talking about slowing down, governments are worried about China, and everyone has an incentive to keep accelerating anyway. Maybe we have been looking at the AI alignment problem one layer too low.
We keep asking whether we can control superintelligence. The more immediate question might be whether we can control the race to build it.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."— H.P. Lovecraft
Yesterday I was on a train, passing through Zurich on the way back from a peaceful vacation in the Austrian Alps. And yes, VCs need vacations too.
I was going to write about something totally different this week, but I had my blissful, alpine peace disrupted by some guy talking about his artificial intelligence and robotics startup, conducting an obnoxious job interview for over an...
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