Meinung | Die Regierung weiß, dass Agi kommt

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I think we are on the cusp of an era in human history that is unlike any of the eras we have experienced before. And we’re not prepared in part because it’s not clear what it would mean to prepare. We don’t know what this will look like, what it will feel like. We don’t know how labor markets will respond. We don’t know which country is going to get there first. We don’t know what it will mean for war. We don’t know what it will mean for peace.

And while there is so much else going on in the world to cover, I do think there’s a good chance that, when we look back on this era in human history, A.I. will have been the thing that matters.

One of the people who reached out to me was Ben Buchanan, the former special adviser for artificial intelligence in the Biden White House. I thought Buchanan would be interesting to bring onto the show for a couple of reasons.

One, this is not a guy working for an A.I. lab. So he’s not being paid by the big A.I. labs to tell you this technology is coming.

Two, he has been at the nerve center of the policy we have been making in recent years — particularly to try to stay ahead of China.

Three, because there has been a profound changeover in administrations. The new administration — with Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen and David Sacks and JD Vance — has a lot of people with very strong views on A.I.

We’re at this moment of a big transition in policymakers, and they are probably going to be in power when artificial general intelligence, or something like it, hits the world. So what are they going to do? What kinds of decisions are going to need to be made? And what kinds of thinking do we need to start doing now to be prepared for something that virtually everybody who works in this area is trying to tell us, as loudly as they possibly can, is coming?