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#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up

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The Importance of Slowing Down Technology

"It occurs to me that maybe we are kind of biased against noticing examples of technologies which have been successfully slowed down or entirely stalled because these things are absences by definition right?" " establishing norms like this early is a really useful precedent to then get more cooperation to happen later on. I'm thinking here as well of like examples like CRISPR and stuff today," he says. 'I think in large part attitudes around that in science still being really shaped by things that happened back in the 1970s yeah interesting'

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