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What Jack Clark thinks about AGI

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Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes Import AI, a weekly newsletter reading the week's AI research, and was OpenAI's policy director before that.

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  1. Our readingAI systems are better than humans at coordinating with each other, and they move much faster than humans do.

    Their wordsMy worry is that AI systems are both better at coordinating than humans and also much, much faster moving than us.

    ↗Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AIjack-clark.net 1st of 2 in this piece

  2. 2 weeks earlier

  3. Our readingA system capable of superhuman invention would fundamentally and unpredictably alter the world's balance of power, rather than simply serving individual empowerment.

    Their wordsRather I am suggesting that it's hard to reconcile a system capable of superhuman invention with something that doesn't fundamentally alter the balance of power in the world in ways that are confusing and hard to reason about.

    ↗Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck’s technological pessimismjack-clark.net 3rd of 3 in this piece

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  5. Our readingGoverning increasingly powerful AI systems requires solving a collective action problem among companies and governments to coordinate on pacing AI development.

    Their wordsMany of the challenges implied by increasingly powerful systems that may eventually build themselves run through solving collective action problems among humans - namely, how we can get companies and governments to coordinate in thinking about how to develop this technology and what kinds of mechanisms may be desirable for being able to control the speed at which it develops.

    ↗Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativityjack-clark.net 2nd of 3 in this piece