Pause AI Protest (September 2023)
Let’s send a message to Meta:
Stop irreversible proliferation of model weights. Meta’s models are not safe if anyone can remove the safety measures.
Take AI risks seriously.
Take responsibility for harms caused by your AIs.
Ping me to get your market added to this. There is a Pause AI topic on manifold.
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AI Pause Debate Week - EA Forum
In March of 2023, 30,000 people, including leading AI figures like Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, signed a letter calling on AI labs to pause the training of AI systems. While it seems unlikely that this letter will succeed in pausing the development of AI, it did draw substantial attention to slowing AI as a strategy for reducing existential risk.
While initial work has been done on this topic (this sequence links to some relevant work), many areas of uncertainty remain. I’ve asked a group of participants to discuss and debate various aspects of the value of advocating for a pause on the development of AI on the EA Forum, in a format loosely inspired by Cato Unbound.
Some additional posts can be found here.