The Risks of AI Safety​

​The Risks of Too Much AI SafetyIn the last week we saw a thousand people call for a six-month pause on AI experimentation — and even one person call for international treaties banning them, who is willing to commit countries to airstrikes against GPU clusters to enforce compliance.I thought it was important to look at what a six-month pause might mean: a 6-month delay in discovering some of the methods that could be important to solving some of the most important challenges facing the human species: nuclear war, climate change, pandemics, biotechnological risks. I also include other existential risks that are frequently brought up, such as asteroids, super volcanoes and cosmic-doom scenarios.That’s the topic of my new Substack article, Existential Threats and Artificial Intelligence Solutions. Please read and enjoy!The Risks of AI Safety was originally published in Building the Metaverse on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.