Aschenbrenner on pausing AI
Aschenbrenner dismisses calls to pause AI development as naive, without engaging the "why not" — the same inevitability logic as the bomb.
Refs: Techno inevitabilism Chadwick on the inevitability of the bomb
Excerpt
On the one end there are the doomers. They have been obsessing over AGI for many years; I give them a lot of credit for their prescience. But their thinking has become ossified, untethered from the empirical realities of deep learning, their proposals naive and unworkable, and they fail to engage with the very real authoritarian threat. Rabid claims of 99% odds of doom, calls to indefinitely pause AI—they are clearly not the way.
— Leopold Aschenbrenner, Situational Awareness (2024), https://situational-awareness.ai/
