Pretty sure it is. You have two factors, increasing the awareness of AI risk and of AI specifically. The first is good, the second may be bad but since the set of people caring about AI generally is so much larger, the second is also much less important.
Telling everyone has some benefits in maybe getting people that are close to working on AGI that you wouldn’t get otherwise and maybe making it more convincing. It might be most efficient as well.
While lots of people care about AI I think establishment is probably still a bit jaded from the hype before the AI winters. I think the number of people who think about artificial general intelligence is a small subset of the number of of people involved in weak AI.
So I think I am less sure than you and I’m going to think about what the second option might look like.
Pretty sure it is. You have two factors, increasing the awareness of AI risk and of AI specifically. The first is good, the second may be bad but since the set of people caring about AI generally is so much larger, the second is also much less important.
There are roughly 3 actions:
1) Tell no one and work in secret
2) Tell people that are close to working on AGI
3) Tell everyone
Telling everyone has some benefits in maybe getting people that are close to working on AGI that you wouldn’t get otherwise and maybe making it more convincing. It might be most efficient as well.
While lots of people care about AI I think establishment is probably still a bit jaded from the hype before the AI winters. I think the number of people who think about artificial general intelligence is a small subset of the number of of people involved in weak AI.
So I think I am less sure than you and I’m going to think about what the second option might look like.