Sholto Douglas: belief

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…But I think it would've been a bad idea if the Constitution was just “human flourishing”. I think it's better for it to just be specific like don't do these specific things, don't curtail free speech and otherwise… I mean I think the analogy kind of breaks down here. No, maybe so. We're here working on AI research. I think each of the companies is trying to define this for themselves. But it's actually something that broader society can participate in. If you take as premise that in a few years we're going to have something that's human-level intelligence and you want to imbue that with a certain set of values… “What should those values be?” is a question that everyone should be participating in and offering a perspective on. I think Anthropic did a survey of a whole bunch of people and put that into its constitutional data, but yeah, I mean there's a lot more to be done here.…

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