But I also think there’s a separate piece—I observe, with pretty high odds that it isn’t just an act, that at least some people are trying to associate themselves with the near-term harms and AI ethics stuff because they think that is the higher-status stuff, despite direct obvious evidence that the highest-status people in the room disagree.
I think this is plausibly describing some folks!
But I also think there’s a separate piece—I observe, with pretty high odds that it isn’t just an act, that at least some people are trying to associate themselves with the near-term harms and AI ethics stuff because they think that is the higher-status stuff, despite direct obvious evidence that the highest-status people in the room disagree.