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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Last updated: April 14th 2023.

1. Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
   by Future of Life Institute
2. Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down
   by Eliezer Yudkowsky [LW · GW]
3. We must slow down the race to God-like AI
   by Ian Hogarth
4. The A.I. Dilemma
   by the Center for Humane Technology
5. The case for slowing down AI ^[1]
   by Sigal Samuel
6. The Case for Halting AI Development
   by Max Tegmark, Lex Fridman
7. Lennart Heim on Compute Governance
   by Lennart Heim, Future of Life Institute
8. Let’s think about slowing down AI [AF · GW]
   by KatjaGrace [AF · GW]
9. The 0.2 OOMs/year target [AF · GW]
   by Cleo Nardo [AF · GW]
10. AI Summer Harvest [LW · GW]
    by Cleo Nardo [LW · GW]
11. 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]
12. Slowing down AI progress is an underexplored alignment strategy [EA · GW]
    by Michael Huang [EA · GW]
13. Slowing Down AI: Rationales, Proposals, and Difficulties ^[1]
    by Simeon Campos, Henry Papadatos, Charles M
14. What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like [LW · GW]
    by lc [LW · GW]
15. In the Matter of OpenAI (FTC 2023) ^[1]
    by Center for AI and Digital Policy
16. We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI ^[2]
    by Erik Hoel
17. Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
    by Eliezer Yudkowsky [LW · GW], Lex Fridman
18. We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky
    by Eliezer Yudkowsky [LW · GW], Bankless
19. The public supports regulating AI for safety [LW · GW]
    by Zach Stein-Perlman [LW · GW]
20. 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]

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 list. I'm undecided on how best to order and subdivide the examples, but I'm open to suggestions. Note that I'm also including surveys.

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.

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

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   Credit to MM Maas [LW · GW].

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