How long before technology brings either abundance or doom to the average person? (which end of the spectrum does not matter, just asking how long before we get to one end or the other.)

Let the wolves into the pig-pen! The Homeland Security’s AI safety board is filled with members who hold a stake in AI’s unregulated advancement, and are actively incentivized to work against AI safety solutions. This is corruption.
#stopai

But of course, we can just turn off ASI if it goes rogue

Data and counterpoint right here: twitter.com/gcolbourn/stat…

Why mass protests against AI are more likely to work than other intervention points: AI protesters are just asking to ban a technology that doesn’t exist yet.

About 0% of the population deeply cares that future AI systems are built.

Most people support pausing AI development…

Remember: jailbreaks need to become impossible for catastrophe to not happen when these models become powerful and able to act independently in the real world (6-24 months from now?)

Everyone responding to this poll chooses between unlimited money or unlimited gravel.

- if > 50% of ppl choose unlimited gravel, everyone gets unlimited gravel
- if not, everyone dies

Which do you choose?

I am so in love with the energy of the Pause AI movement.

They're like effective altruism in the early days before it got bureaucratized and attracted people who wanted something safe and prestigious.

When you go on their discord you have this deep sense that they are taking…

Consider this: you have a very intelligent AI with a pretty high level of generality. It broadly understands current events and their relation to stock prices.

You're a hedge fund manager, and you set it to maximise your portfolio.
What if it occurs to it spread a vast amount…

Big Tech (especially Meta) pushed a conspiracy theory that tiny AI safety nonprofits were doing all the lobbying… all while they quietly outspent ALL of civil society perhaps “5 to 1, 10 to 1”

“While they have publicly been supportive of AI regulation, in closed-door…

If pausing is too hard or impossible, that doesn’t mean that the right answer to make it through must be YOLO. It means we’re fucked.

May 13th - Our second international protest.

SF, NY, London, Rome, Berlin, Den Haag, Stockholm, Paris.

The goal: convince the few powerful individuals (ministers) who will be visiting the May 22nd Summit in Seoul to be the adults in the room. It's up to us to make them…

The 'AI safety board' is staffed by the CEOs of companies who are building AI...