I think there is far too much focus on technical approaches, when what is needed is a more socio-political focus. Raising money, convincing deep pockets of risks to leverage smaller sums, buying politicians, influencers and perhaps other groups that can be coopted and convinced of existential risk to put a halt to Ai dev.
It amazes me that there are huge, well financed and well coordinated campaigns for climate, social and environmental concerns, trivial issues next to AI risk, and yet AI risk remains strictly academic/fringe. What is on paper a very smart community embedded in perhaps the richest metropolitan area the world has ever seen, has not been able to create the political movement needed to slow things up. I think precisely because they pitching to the wrong crowd.
Dumb it down. Identify large easily influenceable demographics with a strong tendency to anxiety that can be most readily converted—most obviously teenagers, particularly girls and focus on convincing them of the dangers, perhaps also teachers as a community—with their huge influence. But maybe also the elederly—the other stalwart group we see so heavily involved in environmental causes. It would have orders of magnitude more impact than current cerebral elite focus, and history is replete with revolutions borne out of targeting conversion of teenagers to drive them.
I don’t understand either. If it is meant what it meant, this is a very biased perception and not very rational (truth seeking or causality seeking). There should be better education systems to fix that.
I think there is far too much focus on technical approaches, when what is needed is a more socio-political focus. Raising money, convincing deep pockets of risks to leverage smaller sums, buying politicians, influencers and perhaps other groups that can be coopted and convinced of existential risk to put a halt to Ai dev.
It amazes me that there are huge, well financed and well coordinated campaigns for climate, social and environmental concerns, trivial issues next to AI risk, and yet AI risk remains strictly academic/fringe. What is on paper a very smart community embedded in perhaps the richest metropolitan area the world has ever seen, has not been able to create the political movement needed to slow things up. I think precisely because they pitching to the wrong crowd.
Dumb it down. Identify large easily influenceable demographics with a strong tendency to anxiety that can be most readily converted—most obviously teenagers, particularly girls and focus on convincing them of the dangers, perhaps also teachers as a community—with their huge influence. But maybe also the elederly—the other stalwart group we see so heavily involved in environmental causes. It would have orders of magnitude more impact than current cerebral elite focus, and history is replete with revolutions borne out of targeting conversion of teenagers to drive them.
why!?
I don’t understand either. If it is meant what it meant, this is a very biased perception and not very rational (truth seeking or causality seeking). There should be better education systems to fix that.