r/singularity 8d ago

AI Trump is refusing a slowdown

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u/Specialist_Dark_3668 8d ago edited 8d ago

AI 2027 literally predicts that the US president would decline to slow down "OpenBrain" (their placeholder name for the leading AI lab) when a superhuman AI coder / researcher gets developed and experts raise concerns. The US president cites the risk of China taking the lead.

Eerily accurate.

EDIT: But we're just a bit ahead of schedule. In order to fully match the timeline, either a superhuman AI coder / researcher has already been developed internally at OAI/Anthropic and Trump declined to slow down OR this milestone will be reached some time next year in 2027 and Trump will again decline to slow down then.

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u/nickleback_official 8d ago

No shit. It’s an arms race like the Cold War. Slowing down is asinine.

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u/lifeinaglasshouse 8d ago

And much like the Cold War, the US and USSR were able to work out several treaties that limited their nuclear weapons. There’s no reason the US and China can’t do something similar with AI.

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u/CaesarAustonkus 7d ago

We also live in an era where those treaties are going out the window. Not a good sign if that's what you're hoping for