Draconian measures can increase the risk of irrevocable catastrophe

I frequently see arguments that we can either accept the current rate of AI progress and a very large risk of existential catastrophe, or slow things down, greatly reducing the risk of existential catastrophe, in exchange for a cosmically irrelevant delay in reaping the benefits of AI.But whether this is true depends on what mechanism is used to slow things down. Draconian controls over the…

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