Eliezer Yudkowsky: belief

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…Yesterday, when we’re recording this, you had an article in Time calling for a moratorium on further AI training runs. My first question is — It’s probably not likely that governments are going to adopt some sort of treaty that restricts AI right now. So what was the goal with writing it? I thought that this was something very unlikely for governments to adopt and then all of my friends kept on telling me — “No, no, actually, if you talk to anyone outside of the tech industry, they think maybe we shouldn’t do that.” And I was like — All right, then. I assumed that this concept had no popular support. Maybe I assumed incorrectly. It seems foolish and to lack dignity to not even try to say what ought to be done. There wasn’t a galaxy-brained purpose behind it. I think that over the last 22 years or so, we’ve seen a great lack of galaxy brained ideas playing out successfully. Has anybody in the government reached out to you, not necessarily after the article but just in general, in a way that makes you think that they have the broad contours of the problem correct?…

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