Comment by Geoffrey Hinton

It’s research but only the big companies have the resources to do this research because it’s research on the large cutting edge models. My belief is that government’s the only people who are powerful enough to deal with these large companies and even they may not be. My belief is the government ought to mandate that they spend a certain fraction of their computing resources on safety research. Now it would be great if that happened. [...] I find it very hard to keep up with what’s happening. There’s new models coming out every day and there’s new techniques being invented every day because there’s a very large number of very smart people working on it now. I find that scary. So it will be hard to regulate. But if you say something like spend a third of your computing resources on AI safety research, that’s sort of more generic and easier to do.