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The DeepMind Institute

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  1. spyckie2 · · focus · HN ↗
    Their economic policy article is quite good:

    - need for faster, better and more accurate measurements of the things we care about

    - 3 scenarios of impact ranging from mild to major disruption

    - mild policies are all sensible, like expanded unemployment insurance and Earned Income Tax Credit

    - major disruption policies are also pretty logical, emphasizing owning a share of the profits of AI

    - AI evaluators to sort and weigh the policies for their effectiveness

    It looks like to me a lot of thinking, research, and work put into the piece.

    I know people will gripe at using AI evaluators to score and weigh policies for effectiveness but if you read any amount of research papers, they do researcher evaluated scoring, which translates to "me, a 26 year old PHD candidate who hasn't held a job yet, and my roommate who stayed up all night with me to tell me his vibes on the subject".

    It is IMO wrong and lazy to dismiss these pieces as being the same level as Dario or Sam's blog posts / speeches / call to actions, these are actual research papers.

    1. impossiblefork · · focus · HN ↗
      The profits of AI will itself will probably be small though. Most of the benefits of the extreme scenarios will probably accrue to normal capital owners-- basically, the useless landowner.

      Consequently things like "Sovereign AI dividends" and the like won't matter in the extreme cases. Profits on a scale that matters for society AI itself will only be a thing in an intermediate scenario which will probably only be real for an incredibly short time.

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