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How the ‘Mythos Moment’ Can Lead to Better AI Policy
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How the ‘Mythos Moment’ Can Lead to Better AI Policy

And bring an end to the ‘boomers vs. doomers’ debate.
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Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Unsplash).

In March 2023, just five months after OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public, I signed the now-infamous “pause letter” sponsored by the Future of Life Institute. Not because I thought a six-month pause in AI development was a particularly good path forward or had any realistic chance of actually happening.

Steven Weber is a partner at Breakwater Strategy, an advisory firm based in Washington, D.C, and a professor of the Graduate School at University of California-Berkeley.

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