Oly Sourbut
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And I think it's also just like, because humans are that kind of creature, like we care about coalitions, we care about institutions.
And so because of that, I think it's really worth giving some emphasis when we're asking about coordination, how coordination can be improved, giving some emphasis to how it is that we...
create and perhaps even design institutions and constitutions and that kind of thing i think especially as well as new kinds of technological capabilities are entering into the world there will be questions about how are we managing them what are the institutions what are the norms and this kind of thing like how is society going to manage this whether it's at an international level whether it's a national level whether it's at smaller community levels
And that will be itself a process of negotiation about institutions and constitutions.
And so this to me looks particularly high stakes as well.
And I think that there's room for AI to really elevate how we do that because very often setting up these institutions and the kind of processes we elevate for how we then do coordination and how we like apply rules and norms.
These things are often, at best, they have unintended consequences or they're kind of inefficacious.
At worst, they can be captured, they can become corrupted, and this kind of thing.
Now, we as humans have a huge track record of building successful and failed institutions.
So we have a lot of data there, actually.
And I think minimally, you can imagine...
equipping people with some kind of red team constitution expert AI, which is able to say, oh, have you considered, you know, in ancient Greece, there was this time when they tried something like this and it fell horribly flat and they all died.
Or, oh, have you considered this kind of nearby example where, you know, in India, they managed this kind of water resource in this way and it was really effective and it's lasted for decades.
You know, so there's at least that kind of track record.
And then some other interesting capabilities from computation and from AI is potentially being able to simulate and red team, like proactively, like try to break institution designs and see how corruptible they are, how capturable are they.
And language models actually bring in actually quite semantically rich scrutiny of this kind of thing in a way that we probably wouldn't have been able to do before.
This might be somewhat computationally expensive.
But I don't think intractably so.
And especially for kind of high stakes decisions, you can imagine this actually becoming a kind of move that we make actually is like, well, can we red team this?
How capturable is it?
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