Short AI Timelines Shift Focus to Lab CEOs and Appointees for Intelligence Explosion

If timelines are short, then we already know the people who'll be making the big decisions during an intelligence explosion. @slatestarcodex argues that this should significantly change how we think about government vs private control over AI. Most political theory is just a collection of heuristics: government generally makes bad decisions about X, but is often necessary for Y. But if timelines are short, the heuristics matter less, because we know who'll be deciding: these lab CEOs, these government appointees. Whether you want this in public or private hands is, in large part, a bet on individuals.