Jason Crawford

And let's try to make more progress, you know?

Now, they pointed out in that article that they weren't proposing something that was brand new.

This kind of thing has received some attention for quite a while.

There are plenty of economists who do the economics of innovation.

Some names off the top of my head, Matt Clancy at Iowa State, Pierre Azoulay and Andrew Lowe, both of whom are at MIT Sloan, Ashish Arora, who I think is at Duke.

Um, they've all published interesting things.

Uh, actually just before the call, I was reading a paper, uh, called our ideas getting harder to find, uh, by Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Rienen, and Michael Webb.

So, um, uh, so people, you know, there's, there's, there's work in this stuff.

Um, I think there should be more work.

It should receive more attention and, um, and, and more of it should actually get applied in practice.

Um, well, if there was an example of somebody keeping a powerful technology secret, I guess we wouldn't know about it.

Um, if they did a really good job, right.

I guess maybe they kept it secret for a long time.

I don't know of examples of keeping things secret.

Um, so there's two different types of, at least two different types of technology risk, right?

There's the risk of accidents and then there's the risk of malicious misuse.

Um,

I don't know a lot about what to do about malicious misuse.

That seems like fundamentally a moral and political problem.

And it's something I've spent a little bit less time thinking about, although it's very important.