A case for AI progress with safety rules and rogue-AI defenses

The post rejects both “accelerate and die” and safety policies that completely stop technological progress. It favors rules for managing safety information around incidents, training records and data provenance. It also calls for U.S. readiness to detect, defeat and deter rogue AIs that threaten national security and collective human interests, including kill switches—but considers those insufficient. Alongside those safeguards, the author advocates using AI to reduce the cost of providing basic goods and services and argues it could support a greatly expanded social safety net.