> These "safety declarations" are toothless and impossible to enforce. You can't stop AI, you need to adapt.
Deepfakes are a distraction from more important things here. The point of AI safety is "it doesn't matter who builds unaligned AGI, if someone builds it we all die".
If you agree that unaligned AGI is a death sentence for humanity, then it's worth trying to stop it.
If you think AGI is unlikely to come about at all, then it should be a no-op to say "don't build it, take steps to avoid building it".
If you think AGI is going to come about and magically be aligned and not be a death sentence for humanity, pay close attention to the very large number of AI experts saying otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P(doom)
If your argument is "but some experts don't believe that", ask yourself whether it's reasonable to say "well, experts disagree about whether this will kill us all, so we shouldn't do anything".
Deepfakes are a distraction from more important things here. The point of AI safety is "it doesn't matter who builds unaligned AGI, if someone builds it we all die".
If you agree that unaligned AGI is a death sentence for humanity, then it's worth trying to stop it.
If you think AGI is unlikely to come about at all, then it should be a no-op to say "don't build it, take steps to avoid building it".
If you think AGI is going to come about and magically be aligned and not be a death sentence for humanity, pay close attention to the very large number of AI experts saying otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P(doom)
If your argument is "but some experts don't believe that", ask yourself whether it's reasonable to say "well, experts disagree about whether this will kill us all, so we shouldn't do anything".