Max Tegmark

And none of them has any more market share or less than before.

So nobody gained anything.

Everybody lost.

And they have to keep becoming ever more plastic fantastic also, right?

But nobody can go back to the old way because it's just too costly, right?

Moloch is everywhere.

And...

Moloch is not a new arrival on the scene either.

We humans have developed a lot of collaboration mechanisms to help us fight back against Moloch through various kinds of constructive collaboration.

The Soviet Union and the United States did sign a number of arms control treaties against Moloch who was trying to stoke them into unnecessarily risky nuclear arms races, et cetera, et cetera.

And this is exactly what's happening on the AI front.

This time...

It's a little bit geopolitics, but it's mostly money where there's just so much commercial pressure.

If you take any of these leaders of the top tech companies, if they just say, this is too risky, I want to pause for six months, they're going to get a lot of pressure from shareholders and others.

They're like, well, if you pause, but those guys don't pause, we're...

We don't want to get our lunch eaten.

And shareholders even have the power to replace the executives in the worst case, right?

So we did this open letter because we want to help these idealistic tech executives to do what their heart tells them by providing enough public pressure on the whole sector to just pause so that they can all pause in a coordinated fashion.

And I think without the public pressure, none of them can do it alone.

push back against their shareholders, no matter how good-hearted they are.