Congrats on the book! I'd love to get my hands dirty on it, but maybe focusing on a specific chapter/section first. Which bit(s) of your book would you recommend as most relevant to someone who is most focused specifically on existential risk reduction and (although been in the AI safety space for a while) has only just become recently interested in AI governance after reading MIRI's "AI Governance to Avoid Extinction" and Hendrycks et al's "Superintelligence Strategy"?
Thanks! Depending on your interests, I'd recommend looking through:
- Chapter 1.3.1. (if you want to review debates over capability development trajectories and timelines),
- Chapter 2.2.2.3. (discussing threat models from frontier AI systems, including catastrophic risks),
- Chapter 2.4. (discussing the feasibility of enforcing international regimes),
- Chapter 3.2 (for a detailed descriptive history of developments in global AI governance), and especially 3.2.3. (... for frontier AI)
- Chapter 3.3. (discussing and comparing dozens of proposed governance levers and approaches to AI regulation)
- Chapter 5.6 (discussing the use of AI in support of international regimes [incl. for AI])
- Chapter 7 has many considerations or steps about how to organize and design the regime complex, with lessons that are either applied to or transferable to advanced AI's risks
I've said this to you a few times before, but I wanted to repeat: thank you so much for your tireless effort to write this much needed "tome".
For everyone's sake, I hope it gets the attention it deserves. As part of my work, I'll be helping to spread the word.
Congrats on the book! I'd love to get my hands dirty on it, but maybe focusing on a specific chapter/section first. Which bit(s) of your book would you recommend as most relevant to someone who is most focused specifically on existential risk reduction and (although been in the AI safety space for a while) has only just become recently interested in AI governance after reading MIRI's "AI Governance to Avoid Extinction" and Hendrycks et al's "Superintelligence Strategy"?
Thanks! Depending on your interests, I'd recommend looking through:
- Chapter 1.3.1. (if you want to review debates over capability development trajectories and timelines),
- Chapter 2.2.2.3. (discussing threat models from frontier AI systems, including catastrophic risks),
- Chapter 2.4. (discussing the feasibility of enforcing international regimes),
- Chapter 3.2 (for a detailed descriptive history of developments in global AI governance), and especially 3.2.3. (... for frontier AI)
- Chapter 3.3. (discussing and comparing dozens of proposed governance levers and approaches to AI regulation)
- Chapter 5.6 (discussing the use of AI in support of international regimes [incl. for AI])
- Chapter 7 has many considerations or steps about how to organize and design the regime complex, with lessons that are either applied to or transferable to advanced AI's risks
That's really helpful! :) Thank you, Matthijs, and merry Christmas!