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Tomasz Tunguz

What Does Pacing Mean?

Dario Amodei asked the industry to pace itself on a Saturday 1 . But what does that word mean? The proposal promises auditors examining AI closely, collective action in the industry to meter the pace of innovation, & international coordination across allied countries. Pacing is a policy question. Five camps priced the consequences & none named a speed. - The interpretability camp wants time. Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, puts the odds that AI goes catastrophically wrong for humanity above 10 percent within a decade & says there is no plan for it 2 . Interpretability, the science of understanding what happens inside a model, β€œdoesn’t always produce clear & reliable results,” Amodei wrote. β€œWe still only understand a tiny fraction of what goes on inside these models.” 1 - The labor camp wants time for workers, not for researchers. Bernie Sanders has introduced a federal moratorium on new AI data center construction until safeguards are enacted. 3 - The econ

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