It’s striking to see a consensus form in the AI industry, even at its heights, around the need for a research slowdown and deliberate next steps. OpenAI’s Jakub Pachocki:
Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer. I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established. And I believe that international coordination on future AI development needs to become a top priority for governments around the world.
Oof that last part is going to be a challenge, though. Talk about an issue with absolutely no political red meat whatsoever —
This is going to be a heavy lift for the technocrats of the world … but if the world ever needed them to lift, it’s now.