Thoughts on Asimovian AI Beyond LLMs and Creative Machines
Asimovian AI is the ideal AI that should have emerged in an ideal universe — the AI intended to replace the grueling pains and labors of the masses, not the one striving to become a businessman's utopia of intellectual worker replacement. Intention is the most important aspect of any implementation, and we are seeing the results of current AI implementation right in front of us: workers getting sacked with each passing day, humanity competing with itself day in and day out over who impresses their superiors more on these token metrics, emerging glorious narratives of how AI will be 'The Future', the recurring advice of 'Use AI or perish in the tech market'. Now who really gains from these events and who loses? I wonder if anyone ever gives serious thought to this broader question or just keeps being a cog in the corporate wheel like everyone else.
It's high time we pushed the "Pause AI" button right now and take a breather and reflect a bit on what exactly is going on here. And no, no big catastrophe is going to happen if we do that. China isn't going to get ahead in the race - and even if it did, how does that justify everything else that's happening here?
I really hope there is someone out there with enough clout and influence who can push this pause button - or at least persuade others to do so. That would be the best thing to happen to humanity at this point. By doing so, we might prevent a massive societal collapse and there is really no downside to this.
The AI alignment problem is much easier than the cooperation alignment problem.
What you want is not a "pause AI" button, it is a "pause capitalism" button. You'll need the second one to have the first one and you actually will never have either.
No one has the influence to do that. Not the POTUS, not the Chinese Premier, not the CEOs of the five biggest companies.
I have since the 90s and I kept being told that what's happening right now was impossible and that I was delusional.
Indeed, and I don't see anyone, especially in the left wing, who tries to embrace this technology to try to build the post-labor society that we are all waiting for, all calling for, and that has been an utopia promised since the 19th century. Now that it is within our reach, there's no one trying to give it a shape.
Sadly, there is no "Pause" button in reality. And we can't load the last checkpoint save either 😅 That's just computer games.
You might find this an interesting read: https://leidendeclaration.ai/
It’s a declaration able the use of AI in mathematics. White it doesn’t completely block AI out, it aims to limit and structure its use in academic research.
I’m sure there are similar stands being Yasmeen in other contexts too, but I just walked to point towards a clear example of people wanting to slow down and think about the repercussions of AI - its training, implementation and usage.