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Questions like this are sometimes referred to as concentration of power risks within the broader AI safety and policy community
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The modern state is the product of a long, uneven process of bargaining between various centers of power, such as the owners of capital and commodities, the wielders of political power, and the people.
Key facts
- Will it be sufficient… to trust these parchment barriers against the encroaching spirit of power?” —James Madison, Federalist No. 48
- At the dawn of the United States as a free nation, James Madison already knew that “parchment barriers” would not be sufficient to prevent tyranny — It is their pleasure to launch AI Futures, the blog of OpenAI’s new Strategic Futures team
- David Hume verbalized this often-implicit assumption succinctly when he observed that political leaders have “nothing to support them but [popular] opinion
Summary
The post below reflects the views of its author, and not necessarily those of any other OpenAI employees or of the organization as a whole. “Will it be sufficient… to trust these parchment barriers against the encroaching spirit of power?” —James Madison, Federalist No. 48. It is their pleasure to launch AI Futures, the blog of OpenAI’s new Strategic Futures team. Questions like this are sometimes referred to as concentration of power risks within the broader AI safety and policy community. David Hume verbalized this often-implicit assumption succinctly when he observed that political leaders have “nothing to support them but opinion.”