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We Should Not Allow Powerful AI to Be Trained in Secret: The Case for Increased Public Transparency
mmary: - Advanced AI systems may reach human-level intelligence within years, with potentially catastrophic consequences if developed irresponsibly. - Current secretive development by corporations and governments creates risks in alignment, misuse, and dangerous concentrations of power without public oversight.
They will be the sole actors responsible for making decisions about which concerns to take seriously and which to dismiss as implausible, which solutions to implement and which to deprioritize as too costly (just as a small group of scientists working on the Manhattan project scrambled to calculate the odds that the first nuclear detonation would ignite the atmosphere, with almost no outside oversight). I also expect that the Chinese government will find out what is happening even if the American public is kept in the dark (continuing the Manhattan Project analogy, the Roosevelt administration succeeded in keeping it a secret from Congress and the Vice President, but not from the USSR). But if there’s a chance this story is right, then it makes sense to put basic transparency requirements in place now that will prevent an extremely small group from developing one of the riskiest technologies in human history without public accountability or oversight.
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