Matt Clifford

Argumentary.

The second argument that certainly people like me would make who are anxious about this is, for goodness sake, what is it about the Trump administration or the financial incentives or the psychological personalities of these people running these models that remotely convinces you that they're incentivized in any way to really put proper safety regulations in place, use the AI to counter themselves?

Every time I meet them,

They are in an arms race.

They're saying, government, back the F off.

Government doesn't understand what we're doing.

They're never going to understand what they're doing.

They don't know what they're regulating anyway.

Get out of our way.

Here we go.

I've got to get there before.

And then insert the name of somebody running one of the other models who they think is unbelievably dangerous and is going to destroy the world.

And I've got to build my model before.

Insert Elon, Larry, Demis, Mark, right?

And if not, I've got to build it before the Chinese.

None of this gives me any sense that we are in an environment in which either they or the US government are getting remotely behind safety.

Europe.

If I was speaking on behalf of the Commission or European leaders, they would feel they have been making a good faith attempt to try to work out how the hell you talk about these different types of risks and how you present regulation.

The response that they have got from Silicon Valley, they feel, is one of unmitigated contempt

that Europe's stuck in the Middle Ages, this is grotesque regulation, this is just another sign of a kind of sclerotic, aging, useless economy, and we will use every tool in the power of the American executive and corporations to punish Europe.