Why Is a Loving Machine Dictator the Best Hope?

Delphi host Tommy asked whether Dario and Sam Altman should run a foundation that decides the rate of progress in artificial intelligence. Michael Arrington rejects the idea. He calls it regulatory capture. Getting into position and then asking to be regulated means there will never be any other competition.

Arrington's ideal is what he calls the benevolent dictator, the model he ties to Dubai. There is no way to keep artificial general intelligence under control. The best hope is that it loves people, cares for them the way people care for animals in zoos, and defends them, rather than seeing people as unnecessary, not caring, and letting them die out. He is both terrified and excited, and he wants artificial general intelligence to love people too.