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Jack Clark

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
352 total appearances

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

You can't expect us to do it because we're in a race with all the others.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

But what I don't see on the other side...

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

is where are people generating all the details of what it is that they want to test these companies on, regulate them on?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

In fact, often what I hear is the company's playing devil's advocate and saying, well, come on, you want to regulate us?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

Tell us what you want to regulate.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

You're not telling us what you want to specify, right?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

Famous people watched Oppenheimer, right?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

There's a moment where those guys think there is a non-trivial possibility that when they trigger the first atom bomb, they could get a chain reaction that blows up the whole universe.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

And they do it.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

I mean, we know that about human nature.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

We know that humans can be very worried about things.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

We know that 30% of the engineers in Google could be very anxious about these things.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

But we also know from things that have gone wrong in the past that companies can make catastrophic mistakes, notwithstanding the goodwill and the seriousness of the engineers involved.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

Tell us a bit about this index.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

Connecting those two stories together, in fact, three stories, mythos, risk, and jobs.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

One of the things that worries me, and you were talking about the US government regulating, is that the US government could wake up in a couple of years' time and say, mythos 15.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

we believe for national security reasons is too dangerous to release outside the United States of America, could launch these horrible cyber attacks, right?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

Which point these frontier AI models become proprietary within the United States.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

Europeans can't access the latest cutting edge frontier models.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)

And then there's a huge sucking sound as all the economic value is sucked out of Europe towards the United States where these AI native companies, your trillion dollar company with three employees are set up in the US on the basis of US frontier models.