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Can policy keep up with AI advances? | OpenAI's Amanda Askell, Miles Brundage, & Jack Clark (2019)

Amanda Askell, Miles Brundage, Jack Clark, Niel Bowerman, Michelle Hutchinson, Rob Wiblin

OpenAI researchers and policy experts convened to discuss a strategic framework that balances scientific transparency with safety, exemplified by the partial release of the GPT-2 model to prevent malicious applications like autonomous warfare and large-scale disinformation. The panel emphasized that short-term governance challenges mirror long-term alignment issues, proposing collaborative incentives and institutional mechanisms to avoid harmful development races while engaging with military sectors to enforce safety constraints. To accelerate these goals, speakers outlined critical career pathways for policy professionals, including newsletter creation and technical translation, while expressing optimism that robust coordination can harness AI to solve global challenges like poverty and disease.