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#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk

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The Status of the Capital P Plan for Getting Here

There's not even perfect agreement in the community or within my head on the high level framing I gave, like it's pretty plausible that we should like sort of drop the long reflection part of the framing. And so that's really the action. So there's not like a plan. There's no plan that we're very confident is both tractable and would succeed if implemented. The key thing isn't are you 100% sure that your picture is right and that this action's good? It's like, do we have enough of a best guess plus urgency is high enough that let's go?

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