Andrew Prokop
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268 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 15 Sep
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He would say it's illegal to create superintelligence.
And also there's going to be a pause or a moratorium on all advanced AI development programs.
Until we can set up a federal regulatory agency and figure out what's going on, basically.
And so that's sort of the furthest out there proposal.
There's also talk about does the government need to be more –
embedded in these companies?
Does there need to be more of a formal role for the government?
Does there need to be sort of outside evaluators who should be in these companies?
And over the weekend, Anthropic and OpenAI kind of embraced that last idea.
They said, we want to empower outside evaluators, but there's a belief that they're doing this because it's sort of an alternative to the government itself getting all involved in these companies.
I think this is the standard universe of proposals that will continue to exist if Democrats sweep into power.
Like the obstacle now is not we don't have ideas.
It's that we haven't built consensus about what to do.
We're still in the early stages of this really rising to the top level of politicians' attention.
So a lot has to be hashed out between the parties, between the different chambers, committees, and so on.
And, you know, the default in Congress is always to bet on nothing happening.
So I think the thing that will probably have to happen is that there would probably have to be more actual real-world damage, harm, or consequences from these models.
Because, you know, what's happened so far is that, like, there's warnings.
And, you know, there was some autonomous hacking of some websites, but nobody got hurt.
It was annoying for the websites.
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