Convincing people in the second category seems to be rather difficult.
I expect that it will prove much easier to convince people before they invest 1000s of hours in preparing themselves for and accumulating work experience in AI safety, and the way it is now, most young people contemplating a career in AI aren’t aware that many observers believe that is are no AI-safety research program whose expected helpfulness exceeds its expected harmfulness (or more precisely, if there is one, we cannot pick that program out from the crowd).
I expect that it will prove much easier to convince people before they invest 1000s of hours in preparing themselves for and accumulating work experience in AI safety, and the way it is now, most young people contemplating a career in AI aren’t aware that many observers believe that is are no AI-safety research program whose expected helpfulness exceeds its expected harmfulness (or more precisely, if there is one, we cannot pick that program out from the crowd).