Manolis Kellis

Progress needs to continue in my view.

And what we need is more experimenting, more transparency, more openness, rather than, oh, open AI is ahead of the curve.

Let's stop it right now until everybody catches up.

I think that doesn't make complete sense to me.

The other component is we should, yes, be cautious with it and we should like not give it the nuclear codes, but as we make more and more plugins, yes, the system will be capable of more and more things.

But right now I think of it as just an extremely able and capable assistant that has these emergent behaviors, which are stunning rather than something that will suddenly escape the box and shut down the world.

And the third component is that we should be taking a little bit more responsibility for how we use these systems.

Basically, if I take the most kind human being and I brainwash them, I can get them to do hate speech overnight.

That doesn't mean we should stop any kind of education of all humans.

We should stop misusing the power that we have over these influenceable models.

So I think that the people who get it to do hate speech, they should take responsibility for that hate speech.

I think that giving a powerful car to a bunch of people or giving a truck or a garbage truck should not basically say, oh, we should stop all garbage trucks because we can run one of them into a crowd.

No, people have done that.

And there's laws and there's regulations against running trucks into the crowd.

Trucks are extremely dangerous.

We're not gonna stop all trucks until we make sure that none of them runs into a crowd.

No, we just have laws in place and we have mental health in place and we take responsibility for our actions when we use these otherwise very beneficial tools like garbage trucks

for nefarious uses.

So in the same way, you can't expect a car to never, you know, do any damage when used in especially like specifically malicious ways.

And right now we're basically saying, oh, well, we should have this super intelligent system that can do anything, but it can't do that.