Helen Toner

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Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a former member of OpenAI's board. Writes Rising Tide, on how AI actually progresses and what policy can do about it.

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AI alignment 7

Adapting over time is a workable answer to humans misusing AI and no answer at all to losing control of systems smarter than us.
Advocates who argue for restricting AI on misuse grounds while privately fearing takeover end up less credible than if they said what they meant.

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AGI 6

AI capabilities are jagged rather than smooth, so the different definitions of human-level AI will be met years apart rather than together.
The term AGI has stopped being useful: today's best systems already meet some people's definitions of it while falling far short of others'.

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LLMs 3

Delaying the open release of a new capability by months or years is worth doing, even though preventing its spread indefinitely is not.
Nonproliferation is the wrong frame for AI misuse; the workable strategy is to use the gap before a capability spreads to build defences against it.

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