Christopher Manning
@chrmanning
After all, before @OpenAI and then @AnthropicAI started the current AI race, @GoogleDeepMind was clearly very much slow-walking the roll-out of advanced AI—I genuinely believe for both commercial (“innovator’s dilemma”) AND safety reasons. So argument 1 was being achieved beautifully. And @demishassabis clearly believed in trying to concentrate AI research on scientific problems that would improve the world and the human condition (such as the AlphaFold protein folding work) satisfying argument 4 better than the resulting race to produce huge LLMs with unconstrained tool use that is currently greatly increasing the risks of advanced AI. So, the argument really does end up mainly coming down to “2. Better us than them”, for a very small, self-selected group of “us”.
