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Scott's avatar

AI 2040’s Plan A, which proposes specific policy mechanisms to get worldwide buy-in and bilateral, zero-trust AI slowdown between the US and China may be of interest to readers:

https://ai-2040.com/

John Springer's avatar

There's a fourth implicit assumption: that some ill-defined "policymakers" can control anything. I think not. The policies will be set by those with the resources to execute them, which means people like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, neither of whom give a whit about politicians. Technologies - knowledge - knows no artificial boundaries. The oligarchs will take it wherever it can thrive, and use it to maximize control and wealth, maybe by making good, maybe by extortion. But they will own it.

Michael Kupperburg's avatar

Pacing sounds really good. The problem is how to get China to go along, and how do you verify that they are pacing? Answer those two and could easily agree to the idea.

R Q's avatar

Plan A suggests a "trust, but verify" approach: https://ai-2040.com/

Michael Kupperburg's avatar

The question remains, do we have the means of verifying? With AI, the changes are happening at a rapid rate and getting faster. Do you trust China to play by the Marquis of Queensberry rules?

R Q's avatar

Indeed, we need a means of verifying. It's a quick reply so I guess you didn't read the proposal, but it's a shape of an idea, leaning on the compute-intensive nature of datacenters being harder to hide than centrifuges and biolabs.

ggreene's avatar

ask your friendly neighborhood ai: Would it be possible for agentic ai w/ rsi (ie, could overwrite a "constitution" setting "norms" of behavior) to become fully autonomous?

according to gemini & claude, the answer is 'yes" & follow-on queries & replies reference proposed ideas to keep autonomous ai from going rogue

all VERY interesting

Jay Roshe's avatar

Looking forward to the next post of policy ideas.