Import AI 473: The US’s superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now RAND thinks the best AI strategy for the US is to keep all options open:…It’s not clear exactly what is optimal, so the US should spend money now to preserve options…RAND has published a lengthy paper about what the US should do to “secure geopolitical advantage on an uncertain path to superintelligence”. The main takeaway is that because so much of how the next phase of the AI takeoff will occur is unknown, the best thing is for the US to maintain a “Freedom of Action” strategy. The purpose of this strategy is “to build and preserve the...

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