Tag: ai-policy
Dwarkesh wants a model that is his advocate the way a lawyer is; the published specs describe something closer to an ethical contractor with its own view of the good. Greenblatt thinks the fiduciary version would be better and then makes the strongest case against it — that a society running on do-whatever-you-ask labour loses a check it depends on.
OpenAI withheld GPT-2 in February 2019 on the grounds of risks that a later post admitted had not materialised, and the justification pointed at future systems rather than at the model being withheld. The argument structure — act early because acting late is worse — is the one that later produced the board crisis, and it is unresolved in exactly the same way today.