AI Red Lines - Decide and share your AI action thresholds
Show HN: AI Red Lines – write down what would make you act on AI
AI Red Lines is a tool that helps you define in advance what AI developments would compel you to act, and what that action would be—whether quitting, speaking up, or getting involved. Inspired by Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist known to have left the Manhattan Project on grounds of conscience, the site lets you write down your personal red lines and share them publicly. It also offers evidence-based steps to make your commitments stick, drawing from a 2016 review of 138 trials, and shows real AI events so you can see if a line has been crossed.
Most of us never write down why we're somewhere. When things change slowly, nothing tells us to stop.
- jhbadger
I think the idea of "red lines" for anything in the sense of a decision made now that is supposed to be binding in the future is a bit silly. Things change and your opinions should be able to change accordingly. I remember disliking cell phones when I first saw them in the late 1990s and thought I'd never own one, but by 2005 they had just become so essential so I gave in. Then I thought I wouldn't get a smartphone but eventually I got one as well. You don't have to jump enthusiasically into any new tech, but if you are going to deny yourself it after it has become standard you are only hurting yourself. Nobody is going to congratulate you on being true to a decision you made in the past.
- rollinDyno
Unrelated but I once saw a post explaining the two dimensions that made AI use acceptable.
On one dimension, it went from having the LLM produce the whole work for you to simply correcting your spelling mistakes. I can't remember what the other dimension was.
The author drew this as a matrix of cells and then shaded green every point he considered acceptable, encouraging readers to color the matrix with their own preferences.
I can't find the post, I already made my AI search for it with no success. Has anyone read anything similar? I remember finding it very useful for talking with my team about what's acceptable to delegate, but I can't remember what the second dimension was.
- delichon
Your example is of someone who honored a red line by running away, and had no perceptible impact. How about choosing someone more effective, like Stanislav Petrov?
Also, if Joseph Rotblat had his way, conventional wisdom is that hundreds of thousands of additional lives would have been lost in WWII, and the Soviet Union may have become the lone military superpower. How sure are you that's wrong?