PwnallthethingsOpenAI's statement on "governance of superintelligence" is basically "in our humble opinion you should regulate AI, but not *our* company's AI which is good, but instead only imaginary evil AI that exists only in the nightmares you have after reading too many Sci-Fi books, and the regulatory framework you choose should be this laughably guaranteed-to-fail regulatory framework which we designed here on a napkin while laughing" https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence
Like ... having been involved in major governments trying to set up coordinated action through multilateral organizations, my careful and considered response to any tech bro who says "major governments around the world could just set up [X]" is "lol, lmao"
I was going to say it's about the same amount of work trying to upgrade your biplane into a jumbo jet while you're flying it, but then it occurred to me that's actually considerably *more* tractable.
Noah Cook@Pwnallthethings Like repairing the Titanic, with the engines still running full steam, because drydock? What's a drydock?
Or at least, that's how I describe trying to reform the American healthcare system, which might be a slight outlier...