Though, given my doomerism, I think the natsec framing of the AGI race is likely wrongheaded, let me accept the Dario/Leopold/Altman frame that AGI will be aligned with the national interest of a great power. These people seem to take as an axiom that a USG AGI will be better in some way than a CCP AGI. Has anyone written a justification for this assumption?
I am neither an American citizen nor a Chinese citizen.
What would it mean for an AGI to be aligned with "Democracy," or "Confucianism," or "Marxism with Chinese characteristics," or "the American Constitution"? Contingent on a world where such an entity exists and is compatible with my existence, what would my life be like in a weird transhuman future as a non-citizen in each system? Why should I expect a USG AGI to be better than a CCP AGI? It does not seem to me super obvious that I should cheer for either party over the other. And if the intelligence of the governing class is of any relevance to the likelihood of a positive outcome, um, CCP seems to have USG beat hands down.
We don’t want an ASI to be ”democratic”. We want it to be ”moral”. Many people in the West conflate the two words thinking that democratic and moral is the same thing but it is not. Democracy is a certain system of organizing a state. Morality is how people and (in the future) an ASI behave towards one another.
There are no obvious reasons why an authocratic state would care more or less about a future ASI being immoral, but an argument can be made that autocratic states will be more cautious and put more restrictions on the development of an ASI because autocrats usually fear any kind of opposition and an ASI could be a powerful adversary of itself or in the hands of powerful competitors.
I think "democratic" is often used to mean a system where everyone is given a meaningful (and roughly equal) weight into its decisions. People should probably use more precise language if that's what they mean, but I do think it is often the implicit assumption.
And that quality is sort of prior to the meaning of "moral", in that any weighted group of people (probably) defines a specific morality - according to their values, beliefs, and preferences. The morality of a small tribe may deem it as a matter of grave importance whether a certain rock has been to... (read more)
Though, given my doomerism, I think the natsec framing of the AGI race is likely wrongheaded, let me accept the Dario/Leopold/Altman frame that AGI will be aligned with the national interest of a great power. These people seem to take as an axiom that a USG AGI will be better in some way than a CCP AGI. Has anyone written a justification for this assumption?
I am neither an American citizen nor a Chinese citizen.
What would it mean for an AGI to be aligned with "Democracy," or "Confucianism," or "Marxism with Chinese characteristics," or "the American Constitution"? Contingent on a world where such an entity exists and is compatible with my existence, what would my life be like in a weird transhuman future as a non-citizen in each system? Why should I expect a USG AGI to be better than a CCP AGI? It does not seem to me super obvious that I should cheer for either party over the other. And if the intelligence of the governing class is of any relevance to the likelihood of a positive outcome, um, CCP seems to have USG beat hands down.