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AI and Leviathan: Part II - by Samuel Hammond - Second Best

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Preparing for regime change

This picks up from Part I but can also be read standalone. AI safety means different things to different people, but whether the focus is job loss or the x-risk from an unaligned superintelligence, the concerns are always presented as relatively first-order. That is, AI safety is usually conceptualized in terms of what AI will do directly, rather than in terms of AI’s likely indirect, second-order effects on society and the shape of our institutions. This is an enormous blind spot. Circa the early 2000s, “internet safety” discussions revolved around first-order issues like identity theft,…

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