William MacAskill
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
William MacAskill is a prominent philosopher known for his work in effective altruism and ethical decision-making. This interview reveals his ability to inspire others to think deeply about the future and the moral responsibilities that come with advancements in technology.
“Will he, I mean, one of the bizarre sad things about all of this is, so he did, in fact, donate quite considerably given how young he was. But in bankruptcy proceedings, if the company or person has bought equity in a company, then that company gets to keep the investment because there was quid pro quo.”
“I mean, what the UK has is home to talent. So London is the second most important hub for AI talent outside of San Francisco. By headcount, it's about a third the size of the, but that's a lot of kind of number of machine learning researchers because Google DeepMind is based in London. There's also offices for Manthropic and OpenAI.”
“They've got so little power that making crazy reckless threats can actually be quite powerful. But look, there's going to have to be some huge bargaining over what are within those principles and what have exceptions for national security.”
“The democracies. Yeah, I think there's a couple of things. So on the software side, I think here's one kind of regulator-the approach. And ideally this would be agreed, at least among all the kind of democratic allied countries, is to say every company producing frontier models, like the most powerful AI systems, needs to have what's call…”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 188. Will AI Give China or the US Total Power? (William MacAskill)
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