[eagleinparadise]

Hmm, if OpenAI and Sam Altman claim to be a savior of humanity by bringing AGI, but they need enormous amounts of capital, this would be a perfect use case for the world’s largest, most powerful government which flaunts his values of freedom, democracy, and other American values to inject its vast resources. We control the global economy and monetary polices.

The government is supposed to be the entity which invests in the “uninvestable”. Think, running a police department is not a profitable venture (in western societies). There’s no concept of profitability in the public sector, for good reason. And we all benefit greatly from it.

AGI sounds like a public good. This would be putting money where your mouth is, truly.

Unfortunately, many private actors want to control this technology for their own selfish ambitions. Or, the government is too dysfunctional to do its job. Or… people don’t believe in the government doing these kinds of things anymore, which is a shame. And we are must worse off

[arcanus]

> this would be a perfect use case for the world’s largest, most powerful government which flaunts his values of freedom, democracy, and other American values to inject its vast resources

https://www.energy.gov/fasst

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security and Technology (FASST)

DOE is seeking public input to inform how DOE can leverage its existing assets at its 17 national labs and partner with external organizations to support building a national AI capability.