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From the membership I can't interpret it as anything other than a pure industry council. An AI safety board would be dominated by representatives of grassroots
by impossiblefork 2y ago
From the membership I can't interpret it as anything other than a pure industry council.
An AI safety board would be dominated by representatives of grassroots civil society organisations, maybe some labour unions. Almost all of these are CEOs of large for-profit corporations. Altman fits right in with the rest.
If you want a board that actually deals with AI safety, these are the precise wrong people to put on it.
I doubt it's a safety focused council. It seems rather like a council for economically useful applications. If there's any interest in safety it's in the limited sense of making AI robust enough for these applications.
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- hedora 2y agoSafe for who/what? From the official post (linked elsewhere in discussion): > DHS is responsible for the overall security and resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure Not people, apparently.
- impossiblefork 2y agoYes, and it's not even bad, as a council. It's perfectly legitimate thing to have an 'industry council for robust and secure AI applications in critical infrastructure'. I'd probably have at least some people whoa aren't software firm CEOs-- probably some experts in managing electrical grids and the like, but you could have it like this. The bad thing is really only calling it an AI safety board.
- kmlx 2y ago> An AI safety board would be dominated by representatives of grassroots civil society organisations, maybe some labour unions. the “safety” in “AI Safety” isn’t what you think it is. it’s homeland security, not labour/societal security.
- mnky9800n 2y agoIt could mean "safe space for corporations trying to monopolize technologies"
- impossiblefork 2y agoYes, but that isn't what AI safety actually means. AI safety is AI safety. I only really object to the name of the board. Otherwise it seems quite reasonable to have one, although if it's for what I think it is I think some grid people should also be on it.