How do we (more) safely defer to AIs?
A chilling new report outlines humanity's last-ditch safety plan for superintelligent AI.
Deep Dive
A new report argues that as AI systems rapidly advance, humanity may have no choice but to fully defer control to them for safety research and strategic decisions by as early as 2027. The author claims this risky 'deference' is the primary strategy to manage existential AI risk, but it requires AIs to be 'wise' and aligned on complex, philosophical tasks. The plan hinges on using massive amounts of supervised AI labor to bootstrap safety in a rushed timeline.
Why It Matters
This outlines a potential do-or-die timeline for aligning superintelligent AI, putting a hard deadline on the world's most critical safety problem.