Simon Skaria

This is written without any wild eyed fear mongering, and I like some of the historical perspectives, but he is clearly a statist. He previously worked in government, expresses concern for the government almost as often as concern for people, and wants to see powers expand in scope and across national borders. There is an undercurrent of “we obviously can’t let the peasants have crossbows”. I also don’t like the bundling of biotech risk and AI risk; it feels like a “big tent” play to raise more concern and grow more levers of power. At the end, he suggests making high end open source AI work illegal, and imposing censorship on the dissemination of prohibited AI research. Cheers for openly saying what you want instead of leaving it all vague, but I am not aligned.