It doesn’t look good.

What used to be the AI Safety Summits were perhaps the most promising thing happening towards international coordination for AI Safety.

This one was centrally coordination against AI Safety.

In November 2023, the UK Bletchley Summit on AI Safety set out to let nations coordinate in the hopes that AI might not kill everyone. China was there, too, and included.

The practical focus was on Responsible Scaling Policies (RSPs), where commitments were secured from the major labs, and laying the foundations for new institutions.

The summit ended with The Bletchley Declaration (full text included at link), signed by all key parties. It was the usual diplomatic drek, as is typically the case for such things, but it centrally said there are risks, and so we will develop policies to deal with those risks.

And it ended with a commitment [...]

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Outline:

(02:03) An Actively Terrible Summit Statement

(05:45) The Suicidal Accelerationist Speech by JD Vance

(14:37) What Did France Care About?

(17:12) Something To Remember You By: Get Your Safety Frameworks

(24:05) What Do We Think About Voluntary Commitments?

(27:29) This Is the End

(36:18) The Odds Are Against Us and the Situation is Grim

(39:52) Don't Panic But Also Face Reality

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First published:
February 12th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qYPHryHTNiJ2y6Fhi/the-paris-ai-anti-safety-summit

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