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Import AI 410: Eschatological AI Policy; Virology weapon test; $50m for distributed training

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Import A-Idea An occasional longer form essay seriesEschatological AI Policy Is Very DifficultA lot of people that care about the increasing power of AI systems and go into policy do so for fundamentally eschatological reasons - they are convinced that at some point, if badly managed or designed, powerful AI systems could end the world. They think this in a literal sense - AI may lead to the gradual and eventually total…

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