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With David Sacks being the AI/Crypto czar, we likely won't be getting any US regulation on AI in the next years.

It seems to me like David Sacks perspective on the issue is that AI regulation is just another aspect of the censorship industrial complex.

To convince him of AI regulation, you would likely need to have an idea about how to do AI regulation without furthering the censorship industrial complex. The lack of criticism of the censorship industrial complex in the AI safety discourse now is a big problem because there are no available policy proposals.

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4ChristianKl2y

I believe about Sacks views comes from regularly listening to the All-In Podcast where he regularly talks about AI. [...] Sacks is smarter and more sophisticated than that. [...] In the real world, efforts of the Department of Homeland security that started with censoring for reasons of national security ended up increasing the scope of what they censor. In the end the lab leak theory got censored and if you would ask the Department of Homeland security for their justification there's a good chance that they would say "national security".

2Orpheus162y

Do you have any quotes or any particular podcast episodes you recommend? [...] Yeah, I agree that one needs to have a pretty narrow conception of national security. In the absence of that, there's concept creep in which you can justify pretty much anything under a broad conception of national security. (Indeed, I suspect that lots of folks on the left justified a lot of general efforts to censor conservatives as a matter of national security//public safety, under the view that a Trump presidency would be disastrous for America//the world//democracy. And this is the kind of thing that clearly violates a narrower conception of national security.) How to exactly draw the line is a difficult question, but I think most people would clearly be able to see a difference between "preventing model from outputting detailed instructions/plans to develop bioweapons" and "preventing model from voicing support for political positions that some people think are problematic."

ChristianKl2y20

Do you have any quotes or any particular podcast episodes you recommend?

I don't have specific recommendations for the past. I would expect a section in the next All-In Podcast in which David Sachs participates to law out his views a bit.

How to exactly draw the line is a difficult question,

That's the question you would ask if you think the person who's drawing the line is aligned. If you think the people speaking about national security and using that to further different political and geopolitical ends are not aligned, it's not the most interesting q... (read more)

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