Would a temporary pause on frontier AI development have been an effective and wise safety measure?

Clem Delangue · May 12, 2023

AI should not be regulated pre-emptively (e.g. pausing development over existential fears); it should be regulated like other technologies as concrete harms appear

An a priori pause risks killing the benefits and progress of the technology while failing to solve the problems that actually exist today

28:08 Regulate based on concrete harms as they emerge not pre emptively via pause

Richard Socher · Aug 18, 2023

Pausing the training of AI models does not make sense

Analogous to asking Tesla to stop updating the AI in his car — he expects it to get better and doesn't assume it will suddenly become so intelligent it drives off to watch the sunset by itself

41:54 Pausing ai training does not make sense continuous improvement should continue

Aaron Levie · May 22, 2024

The 'pause AI' proposal was the scariest moment for AI progress because a six-month pause could never produce alignment on what dangerous AI is

After a decade of community debate, the philosophies in AI are fundamentally different and irreconcilable, so six months would not unify them — and governments seeing the tech community ask for a stop would have gummed up advancement

34:15 Pause proposal was dangerous since alignment on what is dangerous is unreachable

Emad Mostaque · May 17, 2023

This technology is bigger than the printing press, so the public discussion must happen now and we must stop freely training big models on unfiltered internet data

It is coming like a train, which is why he signed the open letter

56:53 Public discussion and training data limits are urgently needed given scale of impact

Alex Lebrun · Jun 19, 2023 · hedged

Those pushing for a pause on AI development or more regulation are mostly people who believe they are already ahead and want to stop others from entering the race

Musk hired someone from DeepMind to build an OpenAI competitor the same day he announced we should pause for six months

25:09 Pause and regulation advocates are self interested incumbents trying to block rivals