>Pause capabilities research until we have proven strategies for aligning AI to human safety. If the power of AI deserves this reaction, then governments are i

>Pause capabilities research until we have proven strategies for aligning AI to human safety. If the power of AI deserves this reaction, then governments are in a race to avoid doing this. We might be able to keep it out of the hands of the average person, but I don't find that to be the real threat (and what harm that does exist at the individual level is from a Pandora's box that has already been opened). Think of it like stopping our nuclear research program before nuclear weapons were invented. A few countries would have stopped but not all and the weapons would have appeared on the world stage all the same, though perhaps with a different balance of power. Also, is the threat of AI enough to be willing to kill people to stop it? If not, then government vs government action won't take place to stop it and even intra-government bans end up looking like abuse. If it is... I haven't thought too much on this conditional path because I have yet to see anyone agree that it is. Then again, perhaps I have a conspiratorial view of governments because I don't believe that those in power stopped biological weapons research as it is too important to understand even if just from a defensive perspective.