Sebastian Galiani
Role at the time: Economist; Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Economics at Tulane University according to his personal academic site.
Condemned
Statement summary
Galiani says Coxon's warning should be taken seriously because competing companies and states expose humanity to risks without collective authority to set the acceptable level. He remains uncertain about catastrophe probabilities and argues that using today's AI productively is compatible with taking this governance problem seriously.
“if there is even some probability of a catastrophic outcome, who decided that we should take that risk?”
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Why we used this label
Galiani rejects an unmanaged race and the absence of collective consent. Uncertainty about probability and benefits of present tools do not constitute support for that conduct.