It is just a fundamental abstraction that it is an all Israeli thing. Israel has no separation of business government and military. It is one of the most integrated States in that respect. The person with the most influence and control over the alignment problem and the most proprietary undocumented black box aspect of all present AI, so close to the Israeli military is not a good idea. Israelis have proven that they are genocidal nuts with no ethics. Even with the best intentions, will these people maintain them under torture and duress. We are all only animals that cosplay sentient intelligence. The power available by bending alignment is already so large it can reshape all of civilization if it were removed or realigned and that power is only going to increase with time.
The Israel State committing genocide is horrible but how is this relevant to Sutkevers start up and AI?
The only slivers of an Israel connection i could find are.
Sutskever was born in the Soviet Union moved to Israel at the age of 5 and lived there till he was 16 before moving to Canada.
The picture they used in the article was taken at a university in Israel 2 years ago when he was still a part of OpenAI.
The startup does have offices in Palo Alto (US) and Tel Aviv (Israel) but thats a silicon valley kinda place, literally all the major tech players have an office there. And i fully agree that is something we should be skeptical about, but its not something you can single American company out on.
It is just a fundamental abstraction that it is an all Israeli thing. Israel has no separation of business government and military. It is one of the most integrated States in that respect. The person with the most influence and control over the alignment problem and the most proprietary undocumented black box aspect of all present AI, so close to the Israeli military is not a good idea. Israelis have proven that they are genocidal nuts with no ethics. Even with the best intentions, will these people maintain them under torture and duress. We are all only animals that cosplay sentient intelligence. The power available by bending alignment is already so large it can reshape all of civilization if it were removed or realigned and that power is only going to increase with time.
The Israel State committing genocide is horrible but how is this relevant to Sutkevers start up and AI?
The only slivers of an Israel connection i could find are.
Sutskever was born in the Soviet Union moved to Israel at the age of 5 and lived there till he was 16 before moving to Canada.
The picture they used in the article was taken at a university in Israel 2 years ago when he was still a part of OpenAI.
The startup does have offices in Palo Alto (US) and Tel Aviv (Israel) but thats a silicon valley kinda place, literally all the major tech players have an office there. And i fully agree that is something we should be skeptical about, but its not something you can single American company out on.