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Potential Solutions

  1. Postpone AI IPOs, possibly even boycott them
  1. Stop development of AGI ASI globally
  1. Pull your money out of AI stocks -unless they are on the white list
  1. Formally establish the Technocratic Oath
  1. Pursue the AI superfund - EU first *NOT as a fig leaf
  1. Universal Basic Capital: a fixed percentage of AI leaders stock must be owned by the public
  1. Reasons to love the Future CAMPAIGN
  1. United all orgs that are working in this sector
  1. Blacklist AI platforms that don’t do what it takes
  1. Make AI the #1 issue for the UN, end security council veto rights
  1. Data center kill switches

LATEST READS: IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS

" Amodei calls for “embedded evaluators,” who are supposed to be independent. He calls for the industry to establish common safety standards through a new organization, probably along the lines proposed by Hassabis and run by the companies themselves, to stop the release of AI models until they are safe. Finally, Amodei calls for international cooperation among democratic countries while also including China". Source: ProSyn

The Economist

Should Anthropic press pause on a potential $2trn IPO?

Amid a safety freakout, it wants to slow down AI development

From Axios, Jim VandeHai

Axios

Behind the Curtain: It's not too late

If we don't act, the chances of AI worst-case scenarios will explode.

Here's how to change that fast, based on our months of conversations with lawmakers, White House officials and AI labs. Think of what follows as me channeling their private views:

  1. Sound an all-hands-on-deck alarm. Every political topic is trivial and small compared to AI. We will look back in shame if we get spooled up about trans bans or $5,000 checks when countless AI insiders are warning of catastrophic outcomes. Let's say they're all paranoid and delusional. If so, it still doesn't matter: we've never seen this much investment in one technology this fast in human history. It's seeping into every industry and every job and every community and every screen, at a speed never before witnessed by man. Yes, we need a special session of Congress and select committees. But we need even more: AI execs, bioterror specialists, job-training wizards and safety experts convening to plan for scenarios and act fast.
  1. An AI governing body with teeth and speed, ASAP. This isn't rocket science. Most major labs want this and would agree to it, as long as it applies to all rivals and competitors. This body would need the expertise to understand these models, and the power to review and shut them down if they display dangerous behavior. It can't operate at typical regulatory speed — it needs to move as fast as the technology. It's nonsense to think you can't advance AI development fast and regulate it wisely simultaneously.
  1. A universal standard for data centers to benefit communities and taxpayers. The top AI companies would take this deal in a heartbeat: They get to build and operate data centers provided they supply a community's energy, offset water use or environmental damage, transparently report on their building and business plans, and spread the financial benefits to local residents. These execs are spooked by the public backlash and ready to aggressively spread the financial benefits, with dividends or cash. So make them.
  1. Engage China. We shouldn't trust them, and they shouldn't trust us. But trust me: the only way to ultimately control AI on a worldwide scale in coming years will be for the two superpowers to create some kind of framework modeled after how we've safely governed nuclear weapons for decades. We need to start this discussion now so potential collaboration is possible in the coming years. To those who think China will never consider this seriously: Are you sure an authoritarian regime really wants AI once it hits recursive self-learning and can't be controlled by anyone, including an autocratic regime? We're winning the AI race now, and may never have more leverage to shape this joint effort.
  1. Build coordinating infrastructure. What I wrote in the WSJ is even more needed today: "Bring together the best and brightest drawn from the federal government, from the leading AI companies, from business and labor, from economics, from public health, from ethics to form a working group with actual authority. People who are paid to anticipate, not to react haphazardly." This group would have four primary functions: map potential problems and upsides before they hit, build the (policy) playbooks before they're needed, level with the American people along the way, and expedite work to deliver widespread AI benefits.