Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down
In a world where humans develop superintelligence, what would you predict to see beforehand? Does what we’re seeing look like failure?<p>I’ve always found the dismissals of EY’s arguments to be pretty weak and people rarely engage on the actual arguments, even as his concerns have become more and more relevant with capability (in 2007 people thought AGI was at best 50yrs out and commonly people thought it was impossible, this was before any real deep learning success and GOFAI was a useless dead-end).<p>Most of the comments here are similarly dumb dismissals that don’t engage, and some even come across as highschool level mocking. It’s worth reading his A-Z book to at least understand why he holds his position.<p>Over time, the dumb responses from others make me think he’s probably more likely right than not. Given the extreme downside risks, I can understand why he argues this.