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Answer.AI co-founder Jeremy Howard proposes banning the top AI lab from using its own model for recursive self-improvement

Will Brown suggested labs also stop promoting recursive self-improvement

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Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward#38inAI

Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement:

- The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI - But everyone else should have access to it.

By definition, this means the frontier doesn't advance.

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Positive users support the proposal restricting top AI labs from using their own models to slow self-improvement because it avoids power imbalances and favors open-sourcing and democratizing AI.

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Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward

It also has the critical benefit of avoiding a dangerous power imbalance.

Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward

Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement:

- The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI - But everyone else should have access to it.

By definition, this means the frontier doesn't advance.

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Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward

@finbarrtimbers If they believed that, they'd be doing the opposite of what they chose.

Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward

Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement:

- The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI - But everyone else should have access to it.

By definition, this means the frontier doesn't advance.

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will brown@willccbb

@jeremyphoward they probably also shouldn’t release a big blog saying “btw we’re doing recursive self improvement now it’s sick as hell haha”

Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward

Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement:

- The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI - But everyone else should have access to it.

By definition, this means the frontier doesn't advance.

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Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward

Anthropic has chosen the *opposite* of the safe path: they are allowing themselves, the current top lab, to use their top model for frontier AI research. They've said they'll sabotage others who try.

This means the AI frontier advances, & power imbalance increases.

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Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward

(To be clear, *I* don't think we should try to slow down recursive AI self improvement - I think we should open it up and democratize it as much as possible. My point is: if *you* claim we should slow down, and you have the best model, you should ensure your org can't use it.)

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@jeremyphoward What is the incentive to train the next frontier model then

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Ahmad@TheAhmadOsman

@jeremyphoward And if they don't, then it's just another case for why:

https://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2

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Jeremy Howard@jeremyphoward

@jtlicardo If your goal is to slow down frontier AI development, then you don't want create that incentive.

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@jeremyphoward That’s why AI should be open source, so that there is a check and balance in power / knowledge

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Christian Hendriksen@chehendriksen

@jeremyphoward I'm not sure how this would be enforceable. What would the mechanism be?

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sand@whitehotsand

@jeremyphoward Why the second point?

Why does that slow down rsi?

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