Alex Wissner-Gross

by government oversight.

We've been in that regime arguably since World War II.

It's just that AI capabilities coming from the private sector are now so capable, so strong, that this government and probably, I would speculate, future U.S.

governments may feel a strong need to suddenly step into the loop from a gatekeeping perspective.

And I think it's the problem with GPT-2 and GPT-3, the memory dulls, but those models were also held up purportedly for safety reasons.

How dare you?

by Dario when he was at OpenAI.

I think there's a long history of a little bit of, call it, moral panic over new AI capabilities.

Moral panic, to some extent, as radical new capabilities like vulnerability discovery suddenly come online, it's probably natural on the one hand.

I think a question one could ask is, would you rather the moral panic be held by the frontier labs

doing the gatekeeping, or would you rather that it be held by a democratically elected government?

Someone somewhere is inevitably going to have this moral panic anytime new capabilities come online.

Yes.

I think, if anything, if you're asking now for my normative position on this, I'm more worried, not that the government is going to aggressively gatekeep the models, I'm worried that the frontier labs themselves will so aggressively self-censor for a variety of reasons, whether it's the new models are too compute-intensive or they want to

to leverage the models just for their own commercial benefit and not share them.

I'm more worried about the frontier labs self-policing more aggressively than the government ever would and stifling competition that way.

I think that's a far scarier future.

I would just say, not only did those, this has been publicly reported, those Google employees protest, they unionized, which is something we've never seen before.

We've never seen in a frontier space like this, AI, you know, just like the juxtaposition of 19th century union-style organization on the one hand, with 21st century, this was the British DeepMind employees who were unionizing to protest Google entering into this agreement with the Pentagon.

We've never seen this bizarre juxtaposition like this before.