Pausing AI Is the Best Answer to Post-Alignment Problems
Even if we solve the AI alignment problem, we still face post-alignment problems, which are all the other existential problems [1] that AI may bring. People have identified various imposing problems that we may need to solve before developing ASI. An incomplete list of topics: misuse; animal-inclusive AI; AI welfare; S-risks from conflict; gradual disempowerment; permanent mass unemployment; risks from malevolent actors/AI-enabled coups/gradual concentration of power; moral error. If we figure o
By MichaelDickens