Openness needed for AI Safety, the battle for the future of AI

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For the smaller groups, communities, and individuals who would not want cronyism to take root in a technology that could be "more transformative than electricity":

Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness

We are at a critical juncture in AI governance. To mitigate current and future harms from AI systems, we need to embrace openness, transparency, and broad access.

open.mozilla.org

 

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Note, unlike the future of life AI open letter which excluded most people in understanding what was said, stating things in a weird sci-fi language, the language of this open letter is clear and inclusive.

As signatories to this letter, we are a diverse group — scientists, policymakers, engineers, activists, entrepreneurs, educators and journalists. We represent different, and sometimes divergent, perspectives, including different views on how open source AI should be managed and released.

Anyone can be an activist.

I've already signed.

If you aren't already an expert (very few of us are), I think the paths to learning and growing skills outside of large institutions (and increasingly only large, unelected corporations) need to be kept open.

 

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AI godfather warns Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis want to control AI

The real risk of AI isn't that it'll kill you. It's that a small group of billionaires will control the tech forever.

www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

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Think about Amazon's, Microsoft's, and Google's capture of cloud(mainframe 2.0), Apple's and Google's capture of mobile, and Facebook's and Google's capture of advertising technology (what social media and search really are).


Imagine if Microsoft (OpenAI), Google, and Amazon (Anthropic, Titan) capture all foundation model building from now through the future, and NVIDIA captures all hardware from now through all the future.

The lobbying and Sci-Fi doomerism seems to have led to successful rent seeking by Big Tech of the government and almost total regulatory capture (again) by Big Tech.

 

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I've known this for a while, but it's good people are talking about it.