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Comment by ColinRowat on How can we promote AI alignment in Japan? · 2023-03-12T22:14:04.269Z · LW · GW

I have less experience in Japan than Harold does, but would generally advocate a grounded approach to issues of AI safety and alignment, rather than an abstract one.  

I was perhaps most struck over the weekend that I did not speak to anyone who had actually been involved in developing or running safety-critical systems (aviation, nuclear energy, CBW...), on which lives depended.  This gave a lot of the conversations the flavour of a 'glass bead game'.

As Japan is famously risk-averse, it would seem to me - perhaps naively - that grounded arguments should land well here.