When you visit the website for PauseAI, you might find some very steep proposals for Pausing AI [...] (I could train one)
Their website is probably outdated. I read their proposals as “keep the current level of AI, regulate stronger AI”. Banning current LLaMA models seems silly from an x-risk perspective, in hindsight. I think PauseAI is perfectly fine with pausing “too early”, which I personally don't object to.
If you look at the kind of claims that PauseAI makes in their risks page
PauseAI is clearly focused on x-risk. The risks page seems like an attempt to guide the general public from naively-realistic "Present dangers" slowly towards introducing (exotic-sounding) x-risk. You can disagree with... (read more)
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A: Yeah. I'm mostly positive about their goal to work towards "building the Pause button". I think protesting against "relatively responsible companies" makes a lot of sense when these companies seem to use their lobbying power more against AI-Safety-aligned Governance than in favor of it. You're obviously very aware of the details here.
B: I asked my question because I'm frustrated with that. Is there a way for AI Safety to coordinate a better reaction?
C:
There does not seem to be a legible path to prevent possible existential risks from AI without slowing down its current progress.
I phrased that a bit sharply, but I find your reply very useful:
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tl;dr:
From my current understanding, one of the following two things should be happening and I would like to understand why it doesn’t:
Either
Everyone in AI Safety who thinks slowing down AI is currently broadly a good idea should publicly support PauseAI.
Or
There does not seem to be a legible path to prevent possible existential risks from AI without slowing down its current progress.
I am aware that many people interested in AI Safety do not want to prevent AGI from being built EVER, mostly based on transhumanist or longtermist reasoning.
Many people in AI... (read 349 more words →)
A German bookseller claims there is a softcover (Taschenbuch) version available for preorder: https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1075128502
Is that correct? It does not seem to be available on any US website.