List of requests for an AI slowdown/halt.

post by Cleo Nardo (strawberry calm) · 2023-04-14T23:55:09.544Z · LW · GW · 6 comments

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  List of slowdown/halt AI requests
    Last updated: April 14th 2023.
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About this document

There has been a recent flurry of letters/articles/statements/videos which endorse a slowdown or halt of colossal AI experiments via (e.g.) regulation or coordination.

This document aspires to collect all examples into a single centralised list. I'm undecided on how best to order and subdivide the examples, but I'm open to suggestions.

As a disclaimer, this list is...

• Living — I'll try to update the list over time.
• Non-exhaustive — There are almost certainly examples I've missed.
• Non-representative — The list is biased, at least initially, towards things that I have been shown personally.

Please mention in the comments any examples I've missed so I can add them!

List of slowdown/halt AI requests

Last updated: April 14th 2023.

(Note that I'm also including surveys.)

• Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
  by Future of Life Institute
• Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down
  by Eliezer Yudkowsky [LW · GW]
• We must slow down the race to God-like AI
  by Ian Hogarth
• The A.I. Dilemma
  by the Center for Humane Technology
• The case for slowing down AI ^[1]
  by Sigal Samuel
• The Case for Halting AI Development
  by Max Tegmark, Lex Fridman
• Lennart Heim on Compute Governance
  by Lennart Heim, Future of Life Institute
• Let’s think about slowing down AI [AF · GW]
  by KatjaGrace [AF · GW]
• The 0.2 OOMs/year target [AF · GW]
  by Cleo Nardo [AF · GW]
• AI Summer Harvest [LW · GW]
  by Cleo Nardo [LW · GW]
• Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time [LW · GW]
  by Akash [LW · GW], Olivia Jimenez [LW · GW], Thomas Larsen [LW · GW]
• Slowing down AI progress is an underexplored alignment strategy [EA · GW]
  by Michael Huang [EA · GW]
• Slowing Down AI: Rationales, Proposals, and Difficulties ^[1]
  by Simeon Campos, Henry Papadatos, Charles M
• What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like [LW · GW]
  by lc [LW · GW]
• In the Matter of OpenAI (FTC 2023) ^[1]
  by Center for AI and Digital Policy
• We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI ^[2]
  by Erik Hoel
• Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
  by Eliezer Yudkowsky [LW · GW], Lex Fridman
• We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky
  by Eliezer Yudkowsky [LW · GW], Bankless
• The public supports regulating AI for safety [LW · GW]
  by Zach Stein-Perlman [LW · GW]
• New survey: 46% of Americans are concerned about extinction from AI; 69% support a six-month pause in AI development [LW · GW]
  by Akash [LW · GW]

1. ^{^}

   Credit to Zach Stein-Perlman [LW · GW].

2. ^{^}

   Credit to MM Maas [LW · GW].

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