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Defensive Accelerationism 

Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, recently wrote an essay on the risks and opportunities of AI and other technologies. He responds to Marc Andreessen's manifesto on techno-optimism and the growth of the effective accelerationism (e/acc) movement, and offers a more nuanced perspective.

Technology is often great for humanity, the essay argues, but AI could be an exception to that rule. Rather than giving governments control of AI so they can protect us, Buterin argues that we should build defensive technologies that provide security against catastrophic risks in a decentralized society. Cybersecurity, biosecurity, resilient physical infrastructure, and a robust information ecosystem are some of the technologies Buterin believes we should build to protect ourselves from AI risks.

Technology has risks, but [...]

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Outline:

(00:06 ) Defensive Accelerationism

(03:55 ) Retrospective on the OpenAI Board Saga

(07:58 ) Klobuchar and Thune's “light-touch” Senate bill

(10:23 ) Links

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First published:

December 7th, 2023

Source:

https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-27-defensive-accelerationism

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