Hi Everyone, I’m Prakash Hinduja, born in India and now living in Geneva, Switzerland (Swiss). I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenge of balancing innovation and safety in AI systems. If any opinion or suggestion please share with me.
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Yes, you walk slowly step by step and open your eyes to see where you are putting your feet, if you get what I mean :)!
Absolutely
AI Safety is (obviously) a huge and consequential question. But it’s kind of like asking “Do you have any thoughts about physics?” 
There is no simple clean answer that someone can give you in a well thought paragraph.
The topic has come up here before, e.g. here’s a thread with some references and links.
There was a global conference on AI Safety at Bletchley Park in the UK (a famous place in the history of cryptography) in 2023. In reaction to that here’s a concise high level response to the issues raised there from Professor Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley, who has also written a number of books on the subject.
Here’s the Wikipedia page about the Bletchley Park summit. They have been doing followup summits since then.
There’s also a new book published very recently by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI. They have been doing their “book tour” mostly in podcast form, so you can hear what they have to say on a number of recent podcasts. Of course Yudkowsky is one of the prominent “AI doomers” as you may infer from the book title.
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