I think the claim is that they’re not competing for public attention any more than AInotkilleveryoneism is competing with, say, saving the whales. Intuitively that doesn’t sound right. When people think about AI, they’ll think of either one or the other a bit more, so there’s competition for attention there. But attention to a certain topic isn’t a fixed quantity. If AInotkilleveryoneism worked with the current AI harms crowd, we might collectively get more than the sum of public attention we’re getting. Or maybe not, for all I know. I’d love it if we had some more media/marketing/PR people helping with this project.
I think the claim is that they’re not competing for public attention any more than AInotkilleveryoneism is competing with, say, saving the whales. Intuitively that doesn’t sound right. When people think about AI, they’ll think of either one or the other a bit more, so there’s competition for attention there. But attention to a certain topic isn’t a fixed quantity. If AInotkilleveryoneism worked with the current AI harms crowd, we might collectively get more than the sum of public attention we’re getting. Or maybe not, for all I know. I’d love it if we had some more media/marketing/PR people helping with this project.