AI and the Arms Race

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Ian Boulden wrote an extensive piece for the Financial Times called We Must Slow Down the Race to Godlike AI. In it, Ian gives his widest view on how we can make AI a global public good. The best long term structure for bringing this to fruition is a nonprofit global organization with governance mechanisms that reflect the interests of all countries and people. I think it is naive to hope we can make a giant leap there today, given the vested interest in misaligned incentives of nation states,. For profit technology companies, and the weakness of international institutions. A kind of AI patriotism is likely to be a good thing for smaller countries in the short term. Taking the example of the UK, I

Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads excerpts from Ian's writing on AI going back to 2018 to help us understand the perspective he's bringing to the taskforce and its £100M mission to make AI safer and more aligned. Excerpts from: AI Nationalism (2018) We must slow down the race to God-like AI (April 2023) Taskforce announcement thread and post (June 2023) The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/