How valuable are weak AI safety regulations? (opens in new tab)  🛡️AI Safety

To prevent superintelligent AI from killing everyone, I would like there to be banning the development of ASI until it can be proven safe. But that sort of agreement requires a lot of political buy-in and coordination. In the meantime, it may be easier to get light-touch AI safety regulations passed. To what extent do weak regulations decrease extinction risk? In this post: Part I discusses routes by which weak regulations can reduce extinction risk. [More] Part II considers some downsides of...