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    Botvinick Calls for Deeper Focus on AI Power Concentration

    Anthropic AI researcher and Yale fellow posted on X about political risks in AI.

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    Matthew Botvinick, who leads work on AI and rule of law at AnthropicAI and is a senior fellow at Yale Law School, posted that he welcomes the growing attention to concentration of power within the AI safety agenda. He noted that political risks had been overlooked for too long and said it is now time to examine the preferred alternative in more depth. The post, from his account, presents his own view and does not include further details on the alternative he has in mind.

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    @mattbotvinickI have been so happy to see concerns about "concentration of power" working their way into the AI safety agenda over the past couple of years. We ignored political risks for too long, and its great to see this now coming into focus. However, I think it's now time to go deeper, to focus on the preferred alternative to CoP. That means talking about how we assure a world in which we have separated powers in balanced equilibrium. There are two relevant models to work from: Acemoglu's and Robinson's balance between the power of the state and the power of society, and the Madison/Montesquieu model of separation of powers within the state. One challenge is to situate the power of the labs within the Acemoglu/Robinson model, and to do so not only descriptively but also normatively. I think we can make progress on that by starting from Philip Pettit's notion of non-domination as the goal of a liberal society. What is a good model for 'separated powers in balanced equilibrium' that (1) includes the labs, and (2) best promotes non-domination?

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    @mattbotvinickI have been so happy to see concerns about "concentration of power" working their way into the AI safety agenda over the past couple of years. We ignored political risks for too long, and its great to see this now coming into focus. However, I think it's now time to go deeper, to focus on the preferred alternative to CoP. That means talking about how we assure a world in which we have separated powers in balanced equilibrium. There are two relevant models to work from: Acemoglu's and Robinson's balance between the power of the state and the power of society, and the Madison/Montesquieu model of separation of powers within the state. One challenge is to situate the power of the labs within the Acemoglu/Robinson model, and to do so not only descriptively but also normatively. I think we can make progress on that by starting from Philip Pettit's notion of non-domination as the goal of a liberal society. What is a good model for 'separated powers in balanced equilibrium' that (1) includes the labs, and (2) best promotes non-domination?