2024-03-24: Rebuttal to Dan Hendrycks
On power, and the delegation of it
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Should We Fear Military AI
Dan Hendrycks was an accomplished machine learning researcher who invented the Gaussian Error Linear Unit, a mathematical function that improved the ability of neural networks to model complex patterns in data. He then became an AI doomer and is now the Director for the Center of AI Safety, an Effective altruist-linked thinktank that aims to slow AI development.
Dan is concerned about military AI use:
People aren't thinking through the implications of the military controlling AI development. It's plausible AI companies won't be shaping AI development in a few years, and that would dramatically change AI risk management.@DanHendrycks
In a democracy, we jointly yield the monopoly on violence to the government. We then elect our leaders, have a right to recall or fire them and…
