Max Winga @maxwinga
Creator Outreach & Systems Lead working to prevent AI extinction risk @ControlAI Previously - AI safety researcher @ConjectureAI, UIUC Physics DMs open! maxwinga.substack.com Joined May 2024-
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Anthropic and OpenAI did not call for a pause. Read the wording: "good for the world to have the option", "possible" to slow down "when needed". This is how they signal safety to one audience, acceleration to another. What is not vague is their unequivocal commitment to RSI.
Very interesting to see the former Chief Scientist of UK AISI quit and say the better plan for AI alignment is to not built ASI yet and that we should work hard to make that happen!
But I just published “Automated alignment is harder than you think” (arxiv.org/abs/2605.06390)! Automated alignment is not the best plan! A better plan is to not build ASI yet, and the world should try hard to realise that plan. Alas, the speed of progress calls for backups.
Great post from @testdrivenzen ! Most plans about developing superintelligent AI are extremely naive about geopolitics and how governments will react to something as threatening as upcoming ASI. All roads lead to catastrophe unless ASI development is prevented globally.
Any plan for surviving superintelligent AI that doesn't go through strong international coordination fails in at least one of three ways: - It sparks war between nuclear powers - It causes a misaligned ASI to kill everyone - It establishes a permanent dystopian dictatorship
If you work at an AI company and think you're doing good for ASI x-risk, you should challenge your beliefs with this post.
Any plan for surviving superintelligent AI that doesn't go through strong international coordination fails in at least one of three ways: - It sparks war between nuclear powers - It causes a misaligned ASI to kill everyone - It establishes a permanent dystopian dictatorship
@rufoguerreschi @ControlAI @SkyNews @KamaliMelbourne @andreamiotti Deliberating about the form factor of the solution is a downstream issue to that of convincing lawmakers there is even a threat in the first place, and that we need to prohibit ASI to prevent it.
Full post: alexamadori.substack.com/p/the-three-fi…
Great post @testdrivenzen! Far too much writing about ASI geopolitics assumes uninformed, irrational, & neutered versions of state actors, and it's good to see analysis that doesn't. If you work at an AI company, it is worth challenging your theory of change with this post.
Even independent evals orgs are completely beholden to AI companies – strongly incentivized to avoid anything that goes against company interests – to maintain their privileged access. We need governments to create binding regulations, not voluntary commitments.
There is a lot of justified anger at Anthropic for sandbagging Fable 5 for AI development tasks. But an unanticipated side effect is that third-party evaluators can no longer credibly use the model for evaluations. Case in point: we are in the middle of running *really hard* AI
@rufoguerreschi @ControlAI @SkyNews @KamaliMelbourne @andreamiotti Treaties are one potential tool in the box, but we've also historically addressed global risks with agreements, de-facto policies, and other systems. What matters is an international coalition agreeing that superintelligent AI must be prohibited, not the exact mechanism.
This is just FUD, they are very actively pumping millions into preventing regulation. The CEOs of these companies could come out and say the bottom line is there should be international coordination to slow down / stop the race. They could publicly implore governments to do so. Instead they are saying it might maybe be good if some organization we aren't helping to make possibly considers slowing things down. Watch the hands, not the mouth.
@S_OhEigeartaigh Followed immediately by ~"btw we're doing RSI as fast as possible lol lmao"
ControlAI's CEO @andreamiotti: Recursive self-improvement could leave us with AIs far smarter than humans that we don't control. Governments must prevent this, and we're already seeing movement from policymakers in the US, UK and Canada. With @KamaliMelbourne on @SkyNews:
this is true, except that loudly and publicly pausing to see if others follow suit seems like a reasonable thing to try in dire straits such as these? obviously I get this is a costly thing to do, and burning your lead is bad if you genuinely believe you’re the safest actor, but that just makes the signal even stronger. I think unilaterally pausing would be much more commensurate with Anthropic’s stated beliefs than writing a blog post (+ even if they *do* believe they’re the safest, they clearly don’t think they are actually on track to solve the problem, so slamming the brakes seems like a better bet than trying to ‘win’)
“If Anthropic wants to pause, they can just pause” is obviously true. “If Anthropic wants *everyone* to pause, they can just pause”, meanwhile, is false.
@rcbregman Thank you for taking a stand on this issue Rutger! At @ControlAI we're working to raise awareness about AI risks among lawmakers and the public and campaign for regulation. So far nearly 150 lawmakers support our campaign in the UK and Canada. Would love to get in touch!
Is AI like a nuke? ControlAI's Samuel Buteau explains how a concerning incident in Mythos's system card illustrates that it isn't really. "It's like a nuclear weapon that sometimes goes off on its own, makes a bigger nuclear weapon, and tries to take over your government."
Great to discuss this with @KamaliMelbourne earlier on @SkyNews. Companies won't slow themselves down. Anthropic is using recursive self-improvement to race to ASI, which they admit risks human extinction. Governments must step in: ban the development of superintelligent AI.
Anthropic has warned about the "risks of humans losing control over AI systems" and has called for a plan to slow down or temporarily halt AI development Read more ⬇️ trib.al/KQkwZ9Q
This is correct.
Our highest and most urgent national priority should be AI safeguards. The risks of AI weapons, pathogens, mass unemployment, surveillance, and even extinction must not continue to be largely ignored.
Not just foreseeable, but foreseen and called out. We ran a campaign to get them out of the first ever AI Safety Summit. We won that one. Yet most of the field kept licking the boot of the companies and here we are. controlai.com/past-campaigns…
@CRSegerie What a waste of a few years RSPs were. Unfortunately the waste was foreseeable.
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