How exactly does this square with slowing down at the frontier?
I get so annoyed that the allopathic approach te medicine seems to be the only thing on the mind of AI labs. Like somehow all ailments just need the right drug, and it's all good. 80% of illness comes from bad lifestyle, and yet the majority is invested in the remaining 20%.
But this is about research and we hardly need more cutting edge research into healthy lifestyle. The things that are not known are minutia which barely matters at population level, especially when most of the population isn't even following the basics.
Research could go into how to work out the most effectively and efficiently. It could go into new nutrition approaches and super foods. It could go into how we can reshape our society to make those things easily available and part of everyday life for everyone. Our modern politics and media already do that at a global level, why not use it for good through AI? Interventions like that would be less immediately obvious, but they would save many millions of lifetimes.