“Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age” by Zvi
About this episode
The episode discusses Demis Hassabis's essay on AI and the implications of government contracts with tech companies.
Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1. Part 2 of this post then covers Alex Turner's resignation, and his story about how he tried and failed to prevent Google from signing up to allow the Department of War to use its models for essentially whatever the government wants, including autonomous weapons. Demis Hassabis sold DeepMind to Google on condition that something like this would not happen. Yet here it is, happening. A cautionary tale. I will cover Kimi K3 tomorrow. I am hoping to know more by then. Please do share any reactions or info about it in the comments here. The Core Statement and Request He saying we are standing in the foothills of the singularity. His ask is a Frontier AI Standards Body within the US Government, similar to FINRA, that would govern ‘frontier labs,’ defined as any company that produces a frontier model based on various technical benchmarks. Evaluations would be updated regularly, and vulnerabilities would be addressed, both before [...] --- Outline: (01:04) The Core Statement and Request (02:38) Things…
People in this episode
Host: Zvi
Guest: Demis Hassabis
Topics covered
- AI
- technology
- government policy
- autonomous weapons
- ethics
Keywords
- Demis Hassabis
- AI standards
- DeepMind
- autonomous weapons
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google, DeepMind
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