One can hope, although I see very little evidence for it.
Most evidence I see, is an educated and very intelligent person, writing about AI (not their field), and when reading it I could easily have been a chemist reading about how the 4 basic elements makes it abundantly clear that bla bla—you get the point.
And I don’t even know how to respond to that, the ontology displayed is to just fundamentally wrong, and tackling that feels like trying to explain differential equations to my 8 year old daughter (to the point where she grooks it).
There is also the problem of engaging such a person, its very easy to end up alienating them and just cementing their thinking.
That doesn’t mean I think it is not worth doing, but its not some casual off the cuff thing.
This is a pretty common problem. If anyone ever needs to explain AI safety to someone, with minimal risk of messing up, I think that giving them pages 137-149 from Toby Ord’s The Precipice is the best approach. It’s simple, one shot, and does everything right.
One can hope, although I see very little evidence for it.
Most evidence I see, is an educated and very intelligent person, writing about AI (not their field), and when reading it I could easily have been a chemist reading about how the 4 basic elements makes it abundantly clear that bla bla—you get the point.
And I don’t even know how to respond to that, the ontology displayed is to just fundamentally wrong, and tackling that feels like trying to explain differential equations to my 8 year old daughter (to the point where she grooks it).
There is also the problem of engaging such a person, its very easy to end up alienating them and just cementing their thinking.
That doesn’t mean I think it is not worth doing, but its not some casual off the cuff thing.
This is a pretty common problem. If anyone ever needs to explain AI safety to someone, with minimal risk of messing up, I think that giving them pages 137-149 from Toby Ord’s The Precipice is the best approach. It’s simple, one shot, and does everything right.