Barriers to a Prosperous Future (opens in new tab)

The current race towards producing general artificial intelligence systems brings with it severe risks, yet no AI company developing frontier models is addressing these risks at a level proportional to the pace of development. The rapid integration of this poorly-understood technology into nearly all aspects of society is precarious at best, and catastrophic at worst. If progress trends continue, we will need a monumental level of investment in enhancing our robustness to these risks in the c...