Pausing AI Is the Best Answer to Post-Alignment Problems

Even if we solve the AI alignment problem, we still face post-alignment problems, which are all the other existential problems that AI may bring. People have identified various imposing problems that we may need to solve before developing ASI. An incomplete list of topics: misuse; animal-inclusive AI; AI welfare; S-risks from conflict; gradual disempowerment; permanent mass unemployment; risks from malevolent actors / AI-enabled coups / gradual concentration of power; moral error. If we figure out how to resolve one of these problems, we still have to deal with all the others.