Dean W. Ball
Part of the reason I began emphasizing entity-based AI governance and oversight/assessment *institutions* as opposed to standards is I’m just not so sure we will have clear, useful standards for AI ready in the near term, and the governance issues we have are near-term.
Chris Painter
My current vision for a good AI safety outcome looks more like "All of the necessary external testing organizations and institutions exist, with the right combination of assessment, oversight, and enforcement powers" and much less like "A well-understood set of clear safety standards exists that is easy to run and export". This means that the US might have some AI safety/governance infrastructure available to it that China doesn't have. If China wakes up late to the importance of alignment and external technically sophisticated institutions, then it will be going through the same capabilities inflection points (on a delay) that the US is without the same contingent institutions.