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Import AI 421: Kimi 2 - a great Chinese open weight model; giving AI systems rights and what it means; and how to pause AI progress

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Want to stop or slow AI progress? Here's what you need: …MIRI enumerates the option space… Researchers with MIRI have written a paper on the technical tools it'd take to slow or stop AI progress. For those not familiar with MIRI, the organization's leaders are shortly publishing a book called "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All", so that should tell you where they're coming from as an organization. Though people have a range of views on this, I think it's very helpful to dispassionately look at what would be required to achieve a goal like this, which is what the researchers do here. So, you want to stop AI progress? Here's how: Here are the different categories you need to do work in and some of the capabilities you'll need: Chip location: Track shipments via manufacturers and distributo

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. What do these technical capabilities unlock? If you succeeded at implementing these capabilities it would unlock certain plans for you as policymakers, these include: Why this matters - enumerating the option space is helpful: Right now, society does not have the ability to choose to stop the creation of a superintelligence if it wanted to. That seems bad! We should definitely have the ability to choose to slowdown or stop the…

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