I don’t work in AI governance, and am unlikely to do so in the future. But various anecdotes and, especially, Akash's recent discussion leave me with the impression that few-if-any people are doing the sort of things which I would consider sensible starting points, and instead most people are mostly doing things which do not seem-to-me to address any important bottleneck to useful AI governance.

So this post lays out the places I would start, if I were working on AI governance, and some of the reasoning behind them.

No doubt I am missing lots of important things! Perhaps this post will nonetheless prove useful to others working in AI governance, perhaps Cunningham's Law will result in me learning useful things as a result of this post, perhaps both. I expect that the specific suggestions in this post are more likely to be flawed than the style of reasoning [...]

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Outline:

(01:10) Liability

(01:22) Why Liability?

(03:59) How Liability?

(06:51) Regulatory Survey and Small Interventions

(12:16) Agencies Which Enforce Secrecy

(13:25) Ambitious Legislation

(13:44) Public Opinion (And Perception Thereof)

(15:01) Legislation Design

(16:11) Selling It

(16:55) Concluding Thoughts

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First published:
December 8th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCstMcRJcjNtdNW7r/what-i-would-do-if-i-were-working-on-ai-governance

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“What I Would Do If I Were Working On AI Governance” by johnswentworth

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