With the TIME article, Bing’s AI’s aggression and Elon Musk’s every other tweet being about AI safety and STILL nothing happening in the media, I think it’s going to take something major to create the spark we need and then fan it into a real fire.
The best idea I’ve had so far is a letter writing campaign in the form of carefully worded emails from all of us here on LW to literally anyone with a platform, but I feel we’ve got to be able to do better than that.
Normally I wouldn’t advocate such a thing, but if we can’t convince people of the real big bag AI coming to get them, then the best thing we can do might be to create a fake and more tangible one.
“Misaligned AGI flying nanobots up our noses in 5 years”—no headlines
“AI takes control of Boston Dynamics robot and kills a man because it’s evil”—HEADLINES
Journalists are pretty much allowed to get away with straight up lying, so if anyone smarter than me could make a fake story that would actually resonate with people hit the news, it’d be something I’d put a lot of hope in.
Honestly I don’t think fake stories are even necessary, and becoming associated with fake news could be very bad for us. I don’t think we’ve seriously tried to convince people of the real big bad AI. What, two podcasts and an opinion piece in Time? We’ve never done a real media push but all indications are that people are ready to hear it. “AI researchers believe there’s a 10% chance they’ll end life” is all the headline you need.
Like I say, not something I’d normally advocate, but no media stations have picked it up yet, and we might as well try whatever we can if we’re desperate enough.
We’ve never done a real media push but all indications are that people are ready to hear it.
With the TIME article, Bing’s AI’s aggression and Elon Musk’s every other tweet being about AI safety and STILL nothing happening in the media, I think it’s going to take something major to create the spark we need and then fan it into a real fire.
The best idea I’ve had so far is a letter writing campaign in the form of carefully worded emails from all of us here on LW to literally anyone with a platform, but I feel we’ve got to be able to do better than that.
Normally I wouldn’t advocate such a thing, but if we can’t convince people of the real big bag AI coming to get them, then the best thing we can do might be to create a fake and more tangible one.
“Misaligned AGI flying nanobots up our noses in 5 years”—no headlines
“AI takes control of Boston Dynamics robot and kills a man because it’s evil”—HEADLINES
Journalists are pretty much allowed to get away with straight up lying, so if anyone smarter than me could make a fake story that would actually resonate with people hit the news, it’d be something I’d put a lot of hope in.
Honestly I don’t think fake stories are even necessary, and becoming associated with fake news could be very bad for us. I don’t think we’ve seriously tried to convince people of the real big bad AI. What, two podcasts and an opinion piece in Time? We’ve never done a real media push but all indications are that people are ready to hear it. “AI researchers believe there’s a 10% chance they’ll end life” is all the headline you need.
Like I say, not something I’d normally advocate, but no media stations have picked it up yet, and we might as well try whatever we can if we’re desperate enough.
I say we make a start on this ASAP.
Hardcore agree. I’m planning a documentary and trying to find interested parties.