Some of the leaders of the artificial intelligence race are calling for a slowdown, for safety’s sake.
Viewed in economic terms, it’s a collective action problem: No one wants to slow down unless everyone does, for fear of being left behind.
Planet Money has a story of a time when biologists solved a similar conundrum: the Asilomar conference of scientists who figured out how to pause their race on gene editing until safety practices could be implemented.
Nick Fountain from NPR’s Planet Money reports.
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