AGI and Democracy – Ash Center

Abstract:

If we are a long way short of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), why worry about it now?

Seth Lazar and Alex Pascal argue that the people building the most advanced AI systems are explicitly and aggressively working to bring AGI about, and they think theyll get there in two to five years. Even some of the most publicly skeptical AI researchers dont rule out AGI within this decade. If we, the affected public, do not actively shape this agenda now, we may miss the chance to do so at all. We face a fundamental question: is the very pursuit of AGI the kind of aim democracies should allow?

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