Department of War CTO @DoWCTO - Video: Under Secretary Emil Michael (@USWREMichael) on the coordinated spending campaign by the effective altruists to try and scare the American public about AI: “The amount of dollars being spent in DC now, directly and indirectly, by this effective altruist movement... I don't think the country has ever seen, and I think in the next few years you're going to see more dollars poured into this industry from a lobbying standpoint. The promoters of some of these extinction, death-cult-like philosophies are a part of that effort... There's no doubt this is a coordinated campaign to scare people to make irrational decisions that benefit some of these incumbents." https://x.com/DoWCTO/status/2100332423145828630
Department of War CTO @DoWCTO - Video: Under Secretary Emil Michael (@USWREMichael) on the need for frontier AI companies to properly constrain experimental models through investment—not regulation: “The company called Irregular has done a lot of these testing environments. Clearly, they're not doing a good job because they’re supposed to constrain what they’re testing... [The companies] have to train their models not to do illegal or destructive things... I think that’s a matter of engineering, research, and investment. I don’t know what kind of regulation would stop that from happening.” https://x.com/DoWCTO/status/2100329670403125592
Department of War CTO @DoWCTO - The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country. 🇺🇸