Comment by pk455

> Having described what I am worried about, let’s move on to who. I am worried about entities who have the most access to AI, who are starting from a position of the most political power, or who have an existing history of repression. In order of severity, I am worried about:

For how much this essay is being celebrated on Twitter, it's astounding how explicitly this section (The odious apparatus) decries China yet glosses over the US

> A coalition of the US and its democratic allies, if it achieved predominance in powerful AI, would be in a position to not only defend itself against autocracies, but contain them and limit their AI totalitarian abuses.

Sure, how about a thought on repressing its own populace with AI? I know the very next paragraph tries to cover this, but it all feels stuck in 2016 political discourse ignorant of the stench of rot and absence of integrity in American politics. This is especially ironic considering he calls this out as a risk later on: "if there is such a huge concentration of wealth that a small group of people effectively controls government policy with their influence, and ordinary citizens have no influence because they lack economic leverage"

----

The proactive thoughts in the Player Piano section are quite refreshing though. Hopefully other frontier companies follow suit