What policy makers need to know about AI safety and security

We can all see that AI is rapidly changing the world, and it's bringing with it a whole new set of safety and security issues. Fundamentally these are technical problems, but they raise enormous policy questions about how to manage the risks associated with these new technologies. As with all technology policy questions, making good decisions requires some understanding of the technology, but it's also not practical for policy makers to read and understand what is an enormous and often highly technical literature. Rather, technologists need to find a way to turn that literature into something that is readily digestible while also retaining the key points that you need to understand in order to make good decisions. Over the past half year or so I've been working on a white paper that tries to do just that, which I'm calling "What policy makers need to know about AI safety and security" where I'm finally prepared to release as a working draft. This isn't a finished artifact (hence…