I think Bruce has the right perspective, but I also can’t help but wonder about whether calls to slow the pace of AI research are loud warnings about the barn d

I think Bruce has the right perspective, but I also can’t help but wonder about whether calls to slow the pace of AI research are loud warnings about the barn door being open long after the horse has left. For example: the Chinese have created a massive surveillance network of CCTVs and drones feeding data into the AI-augmented social credit score system. These are the AI technologies of theirs that we know about. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have lethal drones controlled by AI as a military project. We’ve seen time and time again that the Chinese Communist Party are perfectly happy subverting anything and everything in the service of upholding their own power. It’s a no-brainer to assume that AI ethics are just one more line item in the laundry list of the things they’d subvert. I wonder about the world’s capabilities to counteract such a ruthlessly amoral threat without a deep understanding of the technologies they use, and how to counteract them.