
Highlights: #150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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The Implications of a Fast Transition in AI
I think that there are really important implications of this fast transition in terms of setting up a kind of governance system which can allow us to go slowly despite the technical possibilities existing to go very fast. The kind of thing that Arc has done with GPT-4 for example. Exactly and I think if we only have a few months kind of through the human level stage, that stuff becomes really difficult to do without significant coordination in advance by labs. If it takes months to get there and then within another few months we're already well beyond human capabilities, then no one's going to have time to freak out or it'll be too late.
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