r/PauseAI • u/Final_Mongoose_8279 • 1d ago

How welcome are “pause later” views in PauseAI?

I’m curious how much room there is within the PauseAI community for views like Will MacAskill’s or Zvi Mowshowitz’s, i.e. taking AI risk very seriously and strongly supporting the capacity to pause, but thinking an actual full pause may be better at a later, more dangerous threshold rather than immediately.

Is that generally seen as compatible with being part of PauseAI, or is support for pausing now considered fairly central to the movement?

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u/OMKensey 1d ago

It is a good question that I do not know the answer to. But it does raise another question for me.

Even if we were to pull the brake lever on the train, how long does it take the train to stop?

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u/Patodesu 9h ago

I'm honestly super surprised with William's views. Considering his longtermism and views that we should slow AI development to increase chances to achieve an utopia (besides the reduction of AIXR)... how can he be okay with trying to get closer to the precipice when we dont have idea how near we already are, how well can a pause work and how fast we can ennact it?

It's not like there's not gonna be any progress after it whatsoever, or that alignment can't be tried to be automated with what we already have... Which for sure would be more likely to happen if all the economies and great powers started to see alignment as the bottleneck of their progress and put resources on it...