My theory for why OpenAI wants to be regulated is because Sam Altman wants to avoid having to be more responsible and self regulate internally so they can preserve the role and identity of 'move fast and break things' and outsource the more grown up boring stuff to someone externally so that when things go wrong you can point to a government organisation and say hey look were not liable thats their job

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estearum an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, duh?

Your "theory" is that participants locked in a race to the bottom are looking for an external coordination mechanism?

Yeah!

	▲	dboreham 15 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That doesn't mean that AI safety isn't a serious thing and a problem we should be worried about.
	▲	pyaamb an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		lol I suppose ill add that I think theres a good chance that they are somewhat intentionally trying to "draw the foul" to get the referees to intervene although thats creeping slightly into conspiracy territory

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rr808 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Absolutely. Self driving cars/rideshares have the same problem. If a driverless car hits who who pays the damages? Needs the government to set some rules or it just wont happen.