Pacing the Frontier: A statement from 1,132 employees of frontier AI companies

»Slow down AI« sounds noble until you ask who actually slows down: Democracies and companies that comply simply hand the advantage to rivals that don’t. History suggests voluntary technological restraint rarely wins against geopolitical competition. The race doesn’t stop: it just changes leaders.

Ah, yes. We can’t stop because the ‘bad guys’ won’t. God forbid anyone win the technological arms race other than the land of the once free and the now cowed. If another country wins global dominance they might treat the US the way the US has treated the rest of the world, and that would be unthinkable.

I don’t think @eicker put all that much thought into that comment lol

Please don’t waste your time using AI powered ‘AI detectors’. There’s no such thing. Some relatively rare AI generated images and videos contain a synthid or other tag to show that they were AI generated, but those can always be removed and it’s not something you can do with plain text.

There is absolutely zero benefit to using something like this, but it can cause harm to real people as these often falsely report that an author or student’s actual own words are AI generated.