Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

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  Duncan Cass-Beggs

  Executive Director of the Global AI Risks Initiative at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); former OECD Senior Counsellor for Strategic Foresight

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  [...] And the whole world might have an interest in saying, hold on, wait -- let's not make artificial super intelligence until we can be sure that it can be controlled or done safely. [...] We can have all that while at the same time working togethe...

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  Scott Alexander

  Author and psychiatrist

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  A good pause strategy would involve both sides being able to monitor the other's data centers to prevent illegal training, then limiting training to some slow mutually-agreeable rate that lets alignment researchers thoroughly test each generation of ...

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  Jack Clark

  Anthropic cofounder and policy researcher

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  If there was a way to do a coordinated global slowdown on development, ... that would be good. [...] The real question is: why isn’t there hard regulation here?

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  Alana Horowitz Friedman

  MIRI writer

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  An off switch refers to building the necessary technical, legal, and institutional infrastructure to make it possible for humanity to shut down unsafe AI systems and AI projects. It will also make it possible to verify that there is no dangerous AI d...

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  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  AI researcher and writer

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  The moratorium on new large training runs needs to be indefinite and worldwide. There can be no exceptions, including for governments or militaries. If the policy starts with the U.S., then China needs to see that the U.S. is not seeking an advantage...

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  Nick Bostrom

  Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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  Superintelligence could become extremely powerful and be able to shape the future according to its preferences. [...] If humanity had been sane and had our act together globally, the sensible course of action would be to postpone development of super...

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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty [...] Each of the CEOs of the main AI companies, I believe, wants to disarm but cannot do so "u...

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  Arlene Foster

  Former Northern Ireland first minister

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  Serious harms from advanced AI systems have already begun to materialise. [...] As risks from advanced AI do not respect boundaries, this is a global challenge that requires co-ordinated solutions at international level. [...] The UK can lead diploma...

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  PauseAI

  Global campaign to pause frontier AI

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  Inspired by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), this agency will be responsible for: 1. Granting approval for major deployments and training runs of AIs that are judged not to pose a threat to humanity. This will include red-teaming and mo...

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  OpenAI

  AI research organization

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  OpenAI has long believed there should ultimately be an international organization that helps coordinate leading AI efforts to reduce catastrophic risk. One goal of such an organization should be to make it possible for the world to take coordinated a...

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  Demis Hassabis

  Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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  If we can, maybe it would be good to have a slightly slower pace than we’re currently predicting, [...] so that we can get this right societally. [...] I think so. [...] international collaboration.

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  Anthropic

  AI safety research company

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  If it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing. But if a slowdown simply lets the least cautious actors catch up...

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  Marina Favaro

  Anthropic Institute lead

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  We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology. [...] [A pause would require] multip...

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  If leading AI companies are indeed approaching the point of recursive self-improvement, a coordinated, verifiable, and universally applied pause is probably the only responsible solution to mitigate several major AI risks; at least until safety guara...

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  Chatham House

  International affairs think tank

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  Technology developers, providers and their regulators must therefore: build circuit breakers and ‘kill switches’ into system design; ... ensure access and verification mechanisms.

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  Connor Leahy

  Conjecture CEO; AI safety researcher

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  The primary prerequisite to even considering starting to work on a safe ASI plan is to have a global ASI ban and powerful enforcement already in place. Unsafe ASI is vastly easier to build than controlled ASI, and is on the same tech path. [...] The ...

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  Rob Enderle

  Principal analyst at the Enderle Group, technology industry analyst

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  This would be practically impossible, because the economic and national security stakes are simply too high for any superpower to willingly hit the brakes now. [...] Tracking decentralized computing resources, private data centers and algorithmic res...

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  Lance Ulanoff

  TechRadar editor-at-large

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  I have been arguing for tech and AI regulation for years. It seems like something almost everyone agrees on, but no one can figure out how to broadly implement it. Instead, we get piecemeal bits from local municipalities and Executive Orders. Slowdow...

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