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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 AI Progress

I feel like people have for a while been kind of interpreting things as an AI arms race more than it seems to me as warranted. I think often similar people who are saying like oh you know it's impossible to stop AI progress because it's very valuable are like complaining about the FDA and like right arguably harder than it is to do valuable things sometimes. So yeah. That sound is incredibly hard especially for a technology like this which just seems obviously very economically valuable and valuable in other ways for the people who are building it.Yeah okay so that's one reason that you might be skeptical of slowing down AI being a good thing but we've discussed that probably quite possibly it's more complicated than that

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