Glen TurnerExcellent interview with Meredith Whittaker
Highlights:
Q: Is it interesting to you how their [Gebru and Mitchell's] warnings were received compared with the fears of existential risk expressed by ex-Google “godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton recently?
A: If you were to heed Timnit [Gebru]’s warnings you would have to significantly change the business and the structure of these companies [such as Google]. If you heed Geoff’s warnings, you sit around a table at Davos and feel scared.
Geoff’s warnings are much more convenient, because they project everything into the far future so they leave the status quo untouched. And if the status quo is untouched you’re going to see these companies and their systems further entrench their dominance such that it becomes impossible to regulate. This is not an inconvenient narrative at all.
Q: Unlike many other tech entrepreneurs and academics you didn’t sign either of the two recent petitions, the Future of Life institute “pause AI” letter or last month’s Center for AI Safety “existential threat” letter.
A: No. I don’t think they’re good faith. These are the people who could actually pause it if they wanted to. They could unplug the data centres. ...
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