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How might conservatives grapple with AGI?
Mark Beall
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Mark Beall
@MarkBeall
Stewarding the AGI transition. President, @AIpolicynetwork. Former Pentagon AI policy director, AWS, founder. Dad. Lead guitar 🎸https://goodcookband.
Washington, D.C.
Joined April 2010
- 9/11 made me study intelligence failures. How we had warnings but couldn't believe them. AI execs are telling us exactly what's coming: millions of jobs gone or worse. Will we act on this intelligence, or wait for impact? History doesn't repeat but it sure does rhyme.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI companies like his may need to be taxed to offset a coming employment crisis: He worries that entry-level white-collar jobs could be replaced within 1–5 years. “Even if our company stopped… all the other companies would continue. And if they
00:00 - UK government continues to lead.NEW on Transformer: The UK government today announced a £15 million "Alignment Project", which will fund research into AI alignment, control, and interpretability. The government called AI alignment "one of the most urgent technical challenges of our time".
- Most disturbing isn’t that AI could kill—@elonmusk warned us years ago. It’s the chilling reply to “What are you doing about AI security?”: “I bought a farm… It’ll take 50-100M deaths before the world wakes up.” This is a shocking admission. The American people deserve publicSome good news out there. Paul Tudor Jones says there’s a 90% chance that AI doesn’t wipe out half of humanity.
- I can’t thank McCord enough for saying this out loud. I listen to what many AI leaders say and I can’t help but conclude that their ethics are not aligned with mine at the least and they approach something almost evil in the limit.I’m struck by how profoundly non-humanistic many AI leaders sound. - Sutton sees us as transitional artifacts - x-risk/EA types reduce the human good to bare survival or aggregates of pleasure and pain - e/accs reduce us to variables in a thermodynamic equation - Alex Wang calls
- The next president may govern when AGI comes into being. This could be the most important period of technological transformation perhaps ever. Really glad to see Ivanka engaging on this.Leopold Aschenbrenner’s SITUATIONAL AWARENESS predicts we are on course for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2027, followed by superintelligence shortly thereafter, posing transformative opportunities and risks. This is an excellent and important read :
- Hawley is a force of nature.Unlimited power for AI companies is going to promote “democratic values”? Just like unlimited free trade was going to democratize China. Globalists are always finding reasons to take working people’s rights & jobs. And those reasons always just happen to make them richer
- I’ve not see many tools who try to avoid shutdown.Glad to see Elon’s seen this research from @PalisadeAI
- Great discussion with the @HouseDemocrats Conference on artificial superintelligence and potential extreme risks! AIPN applauds @RepTedLieu’s bipartisan leadership to accelerate Congress’s work to prepare the United States for transformative AI.
- Replying to @deredleritt3rWe’ve been talking about studying physics and philosophy. And thankfully he’s big into sports.
- Nothing to see here. Just harmless tools doing their thing.Replying to @jasonlk
- Export controls do exact a price.
- Stand with Matthew: A Hero's Path to Recovery gofund.me/a0f44918 @elonmusk can you help spread the word?
