There’s a decent chance Trump is our next president. In that case, it would be great for him to be AI-alignment-pilled.
The good news is that, according to Samuel Hammond, he is:
“Unfortunately, the EA vs e/acc debate on Twitter has created the perception that AI safety is left-right polarized. The polls tell a different story. And as a participant on the Project2025 AI policy committee, I can confidently report that Trump’s supposed shadow transition takes AGI and its associated risks seriously.”
Or, at least, Sam hopes he will be (alignment-pilled). As of now, “Trump has himself called the prospect of “super-duper AI” “alarming and scary,” though not as scary as China building it first.”
In any case, Sam makes some interesting points in this piece that I think many here might want to read.
Incidentally, no one here seems to have noticed that Eliezer and Less Wrong were mentioned on Tucker Carlson’s latest episode? Replit CEO Amjad Masad gave a history of AI safety which sounds like Emile Torres run through an e/acc filter (and that could literally be how he arrived at his historical narrative).