Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Sam Altman said
Mental modelBottlenecks
On the topicHow dangerous is AI, and how soon?under our view: What matters is how the people building it behave, not what the machines want
We care very deeply about AI safety. We believe the entire field will have to coordinate on shared safety standards, but will act unilaterally in the meantime. We expect confidence in safety to increasingly set the pace of AI progress.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
Altman says confidence in safety rather than capability will increasingly set the pace of progress. Brundage says companies do not have sufficient incentives to mitigate the major risks, and that competition between them makes it worse. One is a prediction about what will govern the pace; the other is a claim about why it will not.
In tension with
Altman says confidence in safety rather than capability will increasingly set the pace of progress. Mowshowitz says the labs, his own examples included, do not act as though safety were even in their medium-term commercial interest. One is a prediction about what will govern the pace; the other is a measurement of what governs it now.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.