AI pause: the case for ASAP
I often hear people say they think we should pause AI at some point, but not yet. Their basis for this seems to be some combination of:If we pause at the last possible moment, then we will have the most advanced AI possible during the pause, which will be helpful for doing AI safety research during the pauseImplicitly, there is some quantity of ‘pausing credit’, that will buy us a few months of pause say, and if we use them now, we won’t have them to use later, when it is importantIf we pause, a
By KatjaGrace