Hi folks,I don’t have a blog, but I have some thoughts about our current AI moment. I’m hearing a lot of good and bad ideas about how to organize around safety and paced development, but I haven’t heard these ideas yet and wanted to share them here in hopes that some discussion might take place or someone with reach steals them.1. Much of the xrisk discussion hinges on embodied AI. Robots with arms and legs are robots that can kill, displace jobs, etc. All manufacturing of such robotics should come along with a mandatory registration, annual inspections, and functional kill switch that anyone can operate like a fire alarm.2. Rapid model advancement, especially recursive self-improvement, sounds like the center of risk but it really isn’t. A merely more sophisticated model doesn’t make it inherently have more agency. It is the harnesses and people who operate them that facilitate behaviors that can be detrimental. I propose that model steering be a profession that states are required to...