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Hi LessWrong community,
I’m Rufo Guerreschi, the Coordinator, Convenor and Spokesperson of the Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI (CBPAI).
Following our launch last December 18th, I’m excited to introduce myself here and share our initiative with this community, which has long been engaged in discussions on AI alignment, governance, and existential risk.
The accelerating capabilities of AI pose unprecedented risks—not just of misuse, but of loss of control. Many leading AI scientists warn that catastrophic risks could materialize within just a few years, or even “at any time.” Meanwhile, an immense AI-driven concentration of power and wealth is unfolding, pulling the world into an AI arms... (read 445 more words →)
The only winning move is “agreement”, not “not to play”. There is quite some difference.
But how to find an agreeement when so many parties are involved? Treaty-making has been failing miserably for nuclear and climate. So we need a much better treaty-making, perhaps that fo the open intergovernmental constituent assembly?
We need national security people across the world to be speaking publicly about this, otherwise the general discussion on threaats and risks of AI remains gravely incomplete and bias
Good insights! He has rhe right knowledge and dedication. Let’s hope he can grow into an Oppenheimer of AI, and that they’ll let him contribute on AI policy more than they let Oppenheimer on nuclear (see how his work on the 1946 Acheson–Lilienthal Report for international control of AI was then driven to nothing as it was taken up into the Baruch Plan)