AI safety desperately needs to buy in or persuade some high profile talent to raise public awareness. Business as usual approach of last decade is clearly not working—we are sleep walking towards the cliff. Given how timelines are collapsing the problem to be solved has morphed from being a technical one to a pressing social one—we have to get enough people clamouring for a halt that politicians will start to prioritise appeasing them ahead of their big tech donors.
It probably wouldn’t be expensive to rent a few high profile influencers with major reach amongst impressionable youth. A demographic that is easily convinced to buy into and campaign against end of the world causes.
Obvious and “shallow” suggestion. Whoever goes on needs to be “classically charismatic” to appeal to a mainstream audience.
Potentially this means someone from policy rather than technical research.
AI safety desperately needs to buy in or persuade some high profile talent to raise public awareness. Business as usual approach of last decade is clearly not working—we are sleep walking towards the cliff. Given how timelines are collapsing the problem to be solved has morphed from being a technical one to a pressing social one—we have to get enough people clamouring for a halt that politicians will start to prioritise appeasing them ahead of their big tech donors.
It probably wouldn’t be expensive to rent a few high profile influencers with major reach amongst impressionable youth. A demographic that is easily convinced to buy into and campaign against end of the world causes.