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“More on Various AI Action Plans” by Zvi

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Last week I covered Anthropic's relatively strong submission, and OpenAI's toxic submission. This week I cover several other submissions, and do some follow-up on OpenAI's entry.

Google Also Has Suggestions

The most prominent remaining lab is Google. Google focuses on AI's upside. The vibes aren’t great, but they’re not toxic. The key asks for their ‘pro-innovation’ approach are:

  1. Coordinated policy at all levels for transmission, energy and permitting. Yes.
  2. ‘Balanced’ export controls, meaning scale back the restrictions a bit on cloud compute in particular and actually execute properly, but full details TBD, they plan to offer their final asks here by May 15. I’m willing to listen.
  3. ‘Continued’ funding for AI R&D, public-private partnerships. Release government data sets, give startups cash, and bankroll our CBRN-risk research. Ok I guess?
  4. ‘Pro-innovation federal policy frameworks’ that preempt the states, in particular ‘state-level laws [...]

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    Outline:

    (00:21) Google Also Has Suggestions

    (05:05) Another Note on OpenAI's Suggestions

    (08:33) On Not Doing Bad Things

    (12:45) Corporations Are Multiple People

    (14:37) Hollywood Offers Google and OpenAI Some Suggestions

    (16:02) Institute for Progress Offers Suggestions

    (20:36) Suggestion Boxed In

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    First published:

    March 24th, 2025

    Source:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NcLfgyTvdBiRSqe3m/more-on-various-ai-action-plans

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