Thank you for responding!
A: Yeah. I'm mostly positive about their goal to work towards "building the Pause button". I think protesting against "relatively responsible companies" makes a lot of sense when these companies seem to use their lobbying power more against AI-Safety-aligned Governance than in favor of it. You're obviously very aware of the details here.
B: I asked my question because I'm frustrated with that. Is there a way for AI Safety to coordinate a better reaction?
C:
...There does not seem to be a legible path to prevent possible existential risks
Their website is probably outdated. I read their proposals as “keep the current level of AI, regulate stronger AI”. Banning current LLaMA models seems silly from an x-risk perspective, in hindsight. I think PauseAI is perfectly fine with pausing “too early”, which I personally don't object to.
PauseAI is clearly focused on x-risk. The risks page seems like an at... (read more)