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Peter's avatar

Kudos for keeping your gloves up and not giving up the fight, the world needs you, it must be frustrating to have seemingly intelligent people in front of you closing their eyes on common sense by pretending that jumping into an unknown of this magnitude without caution could ever be a good idea.

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Benjamin Riley's avatar

I've been speaking to lots of folks in the AI governance space lately, primarily academics, and I'm struck by how many of them underscore how vital the need is for more research to figure out the nature and scope of many known AI risks. What's also clear is that there's a real schism between those who think the AGI question is helpful even if overstated because it is focusing policy attention and resources on AI risk generally, or whether it's ultimately crowding out the conversation on more immediate, human-driven harms. While I'd like to say "why not both?" there may need to be a reckoning among promoters of trustworthy AI if we are going to make progress.

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