A good, plausible movie about AI risk might be an indirect way to raise the chance of government action via public awareness (if that would be useful). Have there been such AI risk movies that I’ve missed? If not, how could people get one to happen?
Cf I get the impression governments take asteroid risks a bit more seriously thanks to various asteroid-strike movies over the years. Not least the recent Don’t Look Up on Netflix, which despite being a comedy was probably quite thought-provoking to many viewers (e.g. showing how there could well be government & public denial, resulting in disaster).
When reading Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom it struck me parts of it would make excellent movie plots. Eg the AI’s ingenious ways of escaping an AI box by social engineering. (Though, googling, I see that a dire-looking romcom called Superintelligence, perhaps inspired by but very far removed from the book, was released in 2020.)
While not for activist reasons, more for entertainment, I have a general outline in my head about a realistic thriller movie about a quantitative finance company that accidentally comes up with AGI. The plot follows a security consultant who is called in; they don’t really know what’s happening at first and they think it’s a hacker, but it also could be a bug, they’re not sure… Kind of writes itself really.
A good, plausible movie about AI risk might be an indirect way to raise the chance of government action via public awareness (if that would be useful). Have there been such AI risk movies that I’ve missed? If not, how could people get one to happen?
Cf I get the impression governments take asteroid risks a bit more seriously thanks to various asteroid-strike movies over the years. Not least the recent Don’t Look Up on Netflix, which despite being a comedy was probably quite thought-provoking to many viewers (e.g. showing how there could well be government & public denial, resulting in disaster).
When reading Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom it struck me parts of it would make excellent movie plots. Eg the AI’s ingenious ways of escaping an AI box by social engineering. (Though, googling, I see that a dire-looking romcom called Superintelligence, perhaps inspired by but very far removed from the book, was released in 2020.)
While not for activist reasons, more for entertainment, I have a general outline in my head about a realistic thriller movie about a quantitative finance company that accidentally comes up with AGI. The plot follows a security consultant who is called in; they don’t really know what’s happening at first and they think it’s a hacker, but it also could be a bug, they’re not sure… Kind of writes itself really.
A movie version of https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ would be cool!