″… Post-docs and professors were the most dismissive of AI safety in my experience (with high variance).”
What subset of senior academics took your seriously? Do you have data on them, on your talks etc.? Figuring out characteristics of these people seems like it could have high returns.
I think taking safety seriously was strongly correlated with whether or not they believed AI will be transformative in the near-term (as opposed to being just another hype cycle). But not sure. My sample is too small to make any general inferences.
″… Post-docs and professors were the most dismissive of AI safety in my experience (with high variance).”
What subset of senior academics took your seriously? Do you have data on them, on your talks etc.? Figuring out characteristics of these people seems like it could have high returns.
I think taking safety seriously was strongly correlated with whether or not they believed AI will be transformative in the near-term (as opposed to being just another hype cycle). But not sure. My sample is too small to make any general inferences.