This post is incomplete. I'm publishing it because it might be helpful for some readers anyway. A good version of this post would be more detailed: for each proposed action, explain motivation and high-level goal, explain problem to solve, respond to obvious questions/objections, and lay out costs involved and costs worth accepting.

These are the actions I think companies that will build very powerful AI systems should prioritize to improve safety. I think something like these actions are cost-effective,[1] but specific details may be suboptimal. And some actions are not fully specified; some are of the form do good things in area X or avoid risk Y, without pinning down what to do. And not certain, just best-plan-now. Some of these actions are costly, but I claim that they are cheap and important enough that a responsible frontier AI company should do them unilaterally — the gain in safety [...]

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First published:
October 21st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FDBrNMJ8fyx3TB9rt/what-ai-companies-should-do-some-rough-ideas

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“What AI companies should do: Some rough ideas” by Zach Stein-Perlman

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“What AI companies should do: Some rough ideas” by Zach Stein-Perlman