While the community sees the potential of, and earnestly hopes for, a glorious abundant technological future, it is mostly focused not on what we can build but on what might go wrong. The overriding concern is literally the risk of extinction for the human race. Frankly, it’s exhausting.
It might be exhausting, but this seems unrelated to whether or not it’s the best thing to focus on under various empirical and moral views?
Perhaps you don’t dispute this, but you do want to reframe what people are working on rather than changing what they work on?
E.g. reframe “I’m working on ensuring that AI is built carefully and safely”[1] to “I’m working on building the glorious techo utopia”. Totally fair if so, but it might be good to be clear about this.
It might be exhausting, but this seems unrelated to whether or not it’s the best thing to focus on under various empirical and moral views?
Perhaps you don’t dispute this, but you do want to reframe what people are working on rather than changing what they work on?
E.g. reframe “I’m working on ensuring that AI is built carefully and safely”[1] to “I’m working on building the glorious techo utopia”. Totally fair if so, but it might be good to be clear about this.
Supposing this is the best thing to work on which may or may not be true for a given person