AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it

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  Hélène Landemore

  Yale political science professor

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  Currently I just see elected legislatures quite captured by the tech industry and incapable or unwilling to regulate.

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  Adam Segal

  Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations

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  If the frontier labs do achieve superintelligence, their capabilities will become extraordinary. They could launch cyberattacks, wield political influence, or fashion new and exotic weapons to seize power. U.S. policymakers need to ensure that there ...

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  Joseph Stiglitz

  Nobel laureate economist based at Columbia University

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  It is an oligarchy with better technology. [...] If the tech oligarchs continue in their mindset overall of downscaling government, that will impair the ability of government to facilitate the AI transition.

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  Anu Bradford

  Columbia Law School professor; author of The Brussels Effect and Digital Empires

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  I don't believe we should outsource the governance of technology to the tech companies themselves. [...] [Tech companies] don't wake up in the morning thinking, what can I do today to advance public interest? What can I do for democracy? The companie...

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  Andrew Yang

  2020 US Presidential Candidate

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  If these same companies succeed in building artificial general intelligence and deploying AI agents that displace human workers at scale, we'd face catastrophic power concentration. A few tech giants would control not just information, but the entire...

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  The other catastrophic possibility is humans using AI to construct an eventually worldwide dictatorship. A small group of humans could concentrate all the power that AI will have, especially if we achieve AGI or superintelligence. And it would be muc...

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  Tom Wheeler

  Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution; former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2013-2017; author and tech policy expert

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  The more immediate and tangible risk is the concentration of AI decisionmaking in a handful of individuals responsible primarily to themselves and their shareholders. [...] When a handful of companies make consequential choices about model behavior, ...

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  Holly Elmore

  Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US; evolutionary biologist and AI moratorium advocate

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  The governance of superintelligence has to represent the stakeholders of Earth—all people. AI companies cannot grade their own homework. They cannot be allowed to hold so much power that they eclipse democracy.

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  David Lie

  Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Canada Research Chair in Secure and Reliable Systems

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  That is not a choice a for-profit corporation should be allowed to make in a democratic society. Nor should such a company be able to restrict the ability of society to make choices about its own security.

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  Karen Hao

  Technology journalist and author

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  [These companies are] consolidating a historic amount of economic and political power, terraforming our earth, reshaping our geopolitics.

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  Will MacAskill

  Philosopher; effective altruism cofounder; researcher at Forethought Centre for AI Strategy

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  Another possibility, if there's a large enough intelligence explosion, is that the first project to build AGI organically becomes a de facto world government. This possibility is worth taking pretty seriously, given the stakes and the fact that an in...

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  Pope Leo XIV

  Head of the Catholic Church

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  This gives rise to significant concerns about the oligopolistic control of algorithmic systems and artificial intelligence, which are capable of subtly influencing behavior and even rewriting human history — including the history of the Church — ofte...

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  Bruce Schneier

  Security technologist and author

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  A democracy that defers its knowledge to private algorithms is one that risks becoming a spectator to its own governance. [...] If public knowledge is absorbed into proprietary systems that the public cannot inspect, audit or meaningfully challenge, ...

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  Daron Acemoglu

  Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress

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  As AI reorders economies and concentrates power in fewer and fewer hands, the question is no longer whether democracy needs saving, but whether we can save it in time.

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  Once you see AGI you can't unsee it. It has a real 'ring of power' dynamic to it, and makes people do crazy things. I don't mean that AGI is the ring itself, but instead the totalizing philosophy of 'being the one to control AGI'. [...] The only solu...

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  We are witnessing perhaps the greatest transfer of power of our times — not from Governments to people, but from Governments to private technology companies. [...] When technologies that shape behaviour, elections, markets, and even conflicts operate...

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  Simon Chesterman

  Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore; author of Silicon Sovereigns and We, the Robots?

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  Sovereignty — understood as the authority to set rules, allocate resources, and shape collective futures — is migrating from public institutions to private actors. These 'silicon sovereigns' set rules, adjudicate disputes, police speech, shape labor ...

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  Tristan Harris

  Center for Humane Technology cofounder

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  Do you have to listen to the people's political power if you don't get your tax revenue from the people anymore, you get it from AI companies? And if companies — you can't use your bargaining power. You can't, like, withdraw your labor like a labor u...

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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  Whichever company develops AGI first would have a significant advantage that would then increase relative to the other companies. That company — or a small handful of companies — may control a majority of economic activity on the planet and governmen...

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  Tyler Cowen

  Professor of Economics, George Mason University & author of Average is Over

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  Yet if the federal government feels it has no say or no control, it will lunge and take over the whole thing. We thus want sustainable methods of perpetual interference that a) are actually somewhat useful from a safety perspective, and b) give gover...

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