Max Tegmark

Look, car companies have regulations, drug companies have the FDA, etc.

There's no reason to beat AI companies with less oversight than all these other companies.

When they're saying, oh, they're going to die if you put any safety standards on them, this is just hype.

They're just bluffing.

They said, in fact, that they were going to pull out of Europe if the Europeans put some regulation on AI.

The Europeans did it anyway, and they're still in Europe.

So superintelligence-statement.org is a wonderful place you can go and join not only Steve Bannon and the most cited AI researchers in the world, but really who have thought leaders from national security to religious leaders and say, of these two paths, you want AI tools that cure cancer and so on.

You don't want the race to the AI overlord.

And

Don't feel powerless again because this is really run-of-the-mill regulatory capture going on here.

So many other industries in the past have claimed they couldn't be regulated.

Car companies said that they would be a disaster if seatbelts were required.

Well, when seatbelts were required, the car companies made even more money because driving became safer and people bought more.

So you really can make a difference.

If you're listening to this by letting your local representatives know that you don't want to race to digital overlord and that you want these companies be held accountable like all other companies are.

Well, AI used to be overhyped since the 50s until about four years ago and everything took much slower than it was supposed to take.

But then things really flipped.

Six years ago, almost every other AI professor I know thought we were decades away from AI that could master language and knowledge and hold a conversation kind of like a human.

And they were all wrong, of course.

Now we have ChatGPT and so on.