the slowdown letter42:51
“a letter made the rounds, a really, I think, a pretty amazing letter that said we should actually start pacing the frontier. And it was signed by like an enormous percentage of people at the frontier companies.”
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14:40
“Well, I don't want to say the communism word, but you know, whatever people refer to it as. If anyone's read the culture series, right? That's like some far-future thing where AI basically handles everything. And if you choose to go and build your own house, you definitely can, but there's absolutely no economic reason to do it.”
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2:23:44
“Like, I don't know where we get that from. Maybe we look to sci-fi. I haven't read the culture series. I think a lot of people say that there's some amazing pine the sky ideas out there that we need to maybe dust off and and like import into into reality a bit more but like I just don't think the framers of the”
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29:58
“And if I catch myself, I'll put it away. And I've got, you know, I've got the phone safe. I've got the brick. I've got all the like the bells and whistles. And yet, it's just when you're because so much of your life is run through it, my work goes through it.”
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Studies cited in this episode (6)
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the pacing letter55:35
“We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.”
Future of Life's Institute's AI Safety Index1:10:52
“in July, the Future of Life's Institute's AI Safety Index evaluated nine companies and found that no lab scored higher than a C.”
AI 20401:16:23
“they just wrote this piece called AI 2040, which lays out a potential plan for essentially international coordination”
AI 20271:16:26
“these guys who did the AI 2027, they wrote in 2021 that predicted how AI would play out until 2027. It's uncannily accurate.”
AI 20271:16:34
“these guys who did the AI 2027, they wrote in 2021 that predicted how AI would play out until 2027.”