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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220810-061602-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/paths-untaken/ Paths Untaken - The History, Epistemology and Strategy of Technological Restraint, and lessons for AI Maas, Matthijs eng 2022-08-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Artificial Intelligence Digital Technology Future Generations Longtermism Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 If the development of certain technologies, such as advanced, unaligned AI, would be as dangerous as some have suggested, a long-termist legal perspective might advocate a strategy of technological delay—or even restraint—to avoid a default outcome of catastrophe. To many, restraint–a decision to withhold indefinitely from the development, or at least deployment, of the technology–might look implausible. However, history offers a surprising array of cases where strategically promising technologies were delayed, abandoned, or left unbuilt, even though many at the time perceived their development as inevitable.