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by mofeien 7 days ago
> If it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing

Even Anthropic wants to Pause AI now. There must really be not much time left for "edging". Please write to your lawmakers, no matter whether you are in the US, Europe, China, or elsewhere. Only an international agreement between governments can enforce an AI-Pause and eliminate the necessity to dangerously push the frontier.

https://pauseai.info/

3 comments

Whichever side I may stand on, pausing just seems unnatural? Life is movement.
And happiness is restraint.
That would be like trying to get every country to agree to give up nukes.
Or agree on finding ways to promote peaceful use of nuclear energy. This has been done, there are thousands of people working on it around the globe and 180+ member states of the IAEA. It's not easy, there have been close calls.

And cooperating interntionally to buy ourselves time to find ways to develop this "last invention" is a way that will do good for humanity seems to be on a similar level.

Or stop making more, and testing more, which we got the biggest countries to do, at least for a time.
AGI is the "AI nuke" in this metaphor.
They don't, they just pretend they do.