>In AI, like in any field, most of the people who hold power are people who have been very good at winning a bunch of races. It's hard for these people to not w

>In AI, like in any field, most of the people who hold power are people who have been very good at winning a bunch of races. It's hard for these people to not want to race and they privately think they should win the race. >... >Pretty much everyone who works on AI thinks that they're 'one of the good people'. Statistically, this is unlikely to be the case. >... >Proactively giving up power is one of the hardest things for people to do. Giving up power and money is even harder. AI orgs are rapidly gathering power and money and it's not clear they have right incentives to willfully shed their own power. This sets us up for racing. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1555980412333133824 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1555980412333133824 >Also who is to say deceleration in the age of AI isn’t worse than acceleration? Every govt entity is developing it, and it could be a national sec issue to speed it up faster than an adversary See e.g. https://pauseai.info/faq#if-we-pause-how-about-china https://pauseai.info/faq#if-we-pause-how-about-china Silicon Valley seems to have a fairly strong monopoly on AI talent.