LessWrong (30+ Karma)

“More on Various AI Action Plans” by Zvi

Listen Later

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 [...]

    5. ---

    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

    ---

    First published:

    March 24th, 2025

    Source:

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

    ---

    Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    ---

    Images from the article:

    Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store
    LessWrong (30+ Karma)By LessWrong

    More shows like LessWrong (30+ Karma)

    View all
    Making Sense with Sam Harris by Sam Harris

    Making Sense with Sam Harris

    26,334 Listeners

    Conversations with Tyler by Mercatus Center at George Mason University

    Conversations with Tyler

    2,393 Listeners

    The Peter Attia Drive by Peter Attia, MD

    The Peter Attia Drive

    8,004 Listeners

    Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas by Sean Carroll | Wondery

    Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

    4,120 Listeners

    ManifoldOne by Steve Hsu

    ManifoldOne

    90 Listeners

    Your Undivided Attention by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology

    Your Undivided Attention

    1,494 Listeners

    All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg by All-In Podcast, LLC

    All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

    9,261 Listeners

    Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

    Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

    91 Listeners

    Dwarkesh Podcast by Dwarkesh Patel

    Dwarkesh Podcast

    424 Listeners

    Hard Fork by The New York Times

    Hard Fork

    5,448 Listeners

    The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

    The Ezra Klein Show

    15,457 Listeners

    Moonshots with Peter Diamandis by PHD Ventures

    Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

    506 Listeners

    No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups by Conviction

    No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

    127 Listeners

    Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast by swyx + Alessio

    Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

    71 Listeners

    BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley by BG2Pod

    BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley

    466 Listeners