As someone pretty concerned about catastrophic risks from emerging technology, I've been pondering what could possibly be adequate action by the US government. I've been pretty much coming up blank. Anything remotely adequate seems like a dystopian totalitarian surveillance state. So my thoughts have turned instead to decentralized gover…
As someone pretty concerned about catastrophic risks from emerging technology, I've been pondering what could possibly be adequate action by the US government. I've been pretty much coming up blank. Anything remotely adequate seems like a dystopian totalitarian surveillance state. So my thoughts have turned instead to decentralized governance options, with privacy-preserving mutual monitoring enabled by AI. I'll let your AI scan my computer for CBRN threats if you let my AI scan your computer... anything that doesn't meet the agreed upon thresholds doesn't get reported.
I think Allison Duettmann's recent writing on the subject brings up a lot of promising concepts in this space, although no cohesive solutions as of yet. https://www.lesswrong.com/s/9SJM9cdgapDybPksi
As someone pretty concerned about catastrophic risks from emerging technology, I've been pondering what could possibly be adequate action by the US government. I've been pretty much coming up blank. Anything remotely adequate seems like a dystopian totalitarian surveillance state. So my thoughts have turned instead to decentralized governance options, with privacy-preserving mutual monitoring enabled by AI. I'll let your AI scan my computer for CBRN threats if you let my AI scan your computer... anything that doesn't meet the agreed upon thresholds doesn't get reported.
I think Allison Duettmann's recent writing on the subject brings up a lot of promising concepts in this space, although no cohesive solutions as of yet. https://www.lesswrong.com/s/9SJM9cdgapDybPksi