… Either way, the debate has brought “fully autonomous weapons” into the public lexicon in a new way. But AI’s creeping influence in military operations hasn’t slowed down in decades. “We’ve kind of crossed the rubicon while we pretend that we haven’t,” Reddie said. …
… There’s a lot of AI safety debate in our country and in the world, so I want to come back to that. …
… I think our responsibility is to develop AI in a responsible way. Give me an example of something you wouldn’t let your AI do — an argument that you wouldn’t let your AI make, or a motion that you wouldn’t let your AI draft. I don’t know that we would want to necessarily restrict the AI in that way. …
… I take the other side of that debate. I published a paper on seemingly conscious AI, warning about the risks of misrepresenting these models as conscious. I think it’s very dangerous. I also published an article in Nature making the same claim. …