I agree that raising awareness about AI xrisk is really important. Many people have already done this (Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Sam Harris, Tristan Harris, Stuart Russell, Gary Marcus, Roman Yampolskiy (I coauthored one piece with him in Time), and Eliezer Yudkowsky as well).
I took a look at your paper, and I think it’s great! My PhD was in cognitive psychology where they’re pretty focused on study design, so even though I haven’t done a bunch of empirical work, I do have ideas about it. No real critique of your methodology, but I did have some vague ideas about expanding it to address the potential for polarization.
I agree that raising awareness about AI xrisk is really important. Many people have already done this (Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Sam Harris, Tristan Harris, Stuart Russell, Gary Marcus, Roman Yampolskiy (I coauthored one piece with him in Time), and Eliezer Yudkowsky as well).
I think a sensible place to start is to measure how well they did using surveys. That’s what we’ve done here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/werC3aynFD92PEAh9/paper-summary-the-effectiveness-of-ai-existential-risk
More comms research from us is coming up, and I know a few others are doing the same now.
I took a look at your paper, and I think it’s great! My PhD was in cognitive psychology where they’re pretty focused on study design, so even though I haven’t done a bunch of empirical work, I do have ideas about it. No real critique of your methodology, but I did have some vague ideas about expanding it to address the potential for polarization.