AI policy researchers warn existential framing may crowd out concrete regulation
1 Sep 17 · 9d ago · 4 articles · 1 post · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, raised concerns that focusing on existential risk scenarios could overshadow discussion of concrete regulatory mechanisms. She called for breaking down specific pathways to harm and targeting mitigation measures before invoking extinction scenarios.
“Before getting to 'the world is going to end,' we need to be breaking down, what are the mechanisms through which we envision that happening?”
Sarah Myers WestJacob Coxon AI researcher, former OpenAI/Anthropic
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEOEvan Hubinger Anthropic alignment researcher
Bill Gates Microsoft co-founderSarah Myers West AI Now Institute co-executive director
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2 outlets How to Govern the Existential Risk of AI
first by Time Magazine, 9d ago · also Bloomberg
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- Anthropic's Warning of Existential Risk Hijacks Larger AI Debate Bloomberg · 9d ago
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