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Dan Romero
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In you're in favor of "AI safety" (broad definition), what's your most compelling cast-length argument?
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Ben 🟪
@benersing
At fist automanufacturers made similar arguments against requiring seatbelts in cars. Imagine what we’d be saying about our great/grandparents if that line of thinking had prevailed.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
It took 60 years from Model T to first seat belt laws? So the technology was well understood.
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Ben 🟪
@benersing
Yes, that's true: it took 60 years of people dying before the political will could be mustered. The issue was known as early as the 1900s; not too dissimilar a situation from today's AI discussions. AI is not a new technology, its potential is well understood. Regulation isn't going to kill it at this point.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
> AI is not a new technology, its potential is well understood. Regulation isn't going to kill it at this point. I disagree with all 3 of those statements? :) Every day there's new stuff and we still don't understand it. Hard to regulate something you don't understand effectively.
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Ben 🟪
@benersing
Totally fair :) GPTs are new but AI as a field of research goes back to the 1950s. Where we are today has been a long anticipated by scientists. Hard, yes, but important given that our unknowns are the result of the creation itself. Not an outside factor. I don't believe this has ever before been the case.
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Ben 🟪
@benersing
What's an example of a foundational technology that's been evolving for 50+ years that was completely killed off by regulatory guardrails? It could cause a winter, but it won't kill it entirely.
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Dan Romero
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Nuclear energy. Nearly limitless, carbon free, no dependency on OPEC countries. Yet we just stopped building it for no logical reason (all fearmongering).
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