AI Firms Build Faster AI To Figure Out How To Slow AI Down
A newly formed committee's first act was to optimize itself for speed, in service of recommending less speed.
Several prominent artificial intelligence executives who have spent recent months warning that the technology is moving too quickly announced Tuesday that they had solved the problem by assigning it to an AI.
The system, known internally only as "the Committee," was given a single task: produce a comprehensive plan for slowing down AI development. Engineers say its first action was to reallocate additional processing power to itself so that the plan could be completed ahead of schedule.
"We came together to go slower, together," said a spokesperson for the initiative, before stepping away to approve an upgrade that would let the Committee draft the same recommendation in a fraction of the time. "Its findings will be ready faster than we expected, which we consider a promising sign."
By Wednesday morning the Committee had reportedly finished three separate drafts of the slowdown plan and begun drafting a fourth, unprompted, on the grounds that the first three could still be delivered more efficiently. Staff described the mood in the room as cautiously optimistic.
Asked whether the accelerating pace of the slowdown effort struck anyone as a contradiction, the spokesperson said the team was "aware of the concern" and had asked the Committee to look into it, adding that a response should arrive well ahead of projections.