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At the centre Advocates who argue for restricting AI on misuse grounds while privately fearing takeover end up less credible than if they said what they meant. Holds HTHelen Toner Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Giving an AI long-run values risks those values sinking in deeper than the specific prohibitions against takeover that sit alongside them. Holds RGRyan Greenblatt
• Similar wording AI takeover is not the thing to worry about: physical constraints bound recursive self-improvement, and humans reliably act once a risk becomes immediate. Holds NLNathan Lambert
• Similar wording Most of the value an AI expert brings to a company is telling it not to use AI. Holds AKAndrej Karpathy
• Similar wording People disagreeing about AI capability are speaking past each other, because they are using models of very different tiers on very different kinds of task. Holds AKAndrej Karpathy
• Similar wording Companies do not have sufficient incentives to mitigate the major risks of AI, and competition between them is driving corner-cutting. Holds MBMiles Brundage
• Similar wording Neither the AI enthusiasts nor the AI sceptics are making it up; both camps are looking at real trends. Holds CMCharity Majors
• Similar wording Both AI camps believe they are the suppressed minority standing up for the truth, and that shared belief is why neither hears the other. Holds CMCharity Majors
• Similar wording The AI safety community's fixation on a model escaping its box has pushed the other significant AI risks out of the discussion, with little progress to show for it. Holds SASam Altman