@VraserX: I keep seeing people talk about slowing frontier AI as if the only risk worth thinking about is moving too fast. But sl…
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The article argues that slowing down frontier AI could have significant human costs by delaying beneficial research in areas like cancer and energy systems, and advocates for responsible acceleration rather than minimizing progress.
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I keep seeing people talk about slowing frontier AI as if the only risk worth thinking about is moving too fast.
But slowing down has risks too.
If more capable AI can accelerate cancer research, help us understand aging, design better drugs, discover new materials, improve energy systems and solve scientific problems that humans have struggled with for decades, then delaying that progress has a very real human cost.
Every year matters when people are dying from diseases we still cannot cure. Every year matters when millions suffer from conditions science has not solved yet. Every year matters when better energy technology, medicine or automation could dramatically improve human lives.
Of course frontier AI needs serious safety work. But “slow everything down” is not a morally neutral position.
You are also choosing to delay the discoveries these systems might make.
The goal should not be to make AI progress as slow as possible.
It should be to make it as fast as we can responsibly handle.
Because there may come a point where the most dangerous thing we can do is waste years being afraid of the technology that could help us solve some of humanity’s hardest problems.
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