X-Risk sentiment in the audience: at one point in the debate, one participant asked the audience who thought AI was an existential risk. From memory, around 2/3s of students put up their hands.
Do you have a rough sense of how many of these had interacted with AI Safety programming/content from your group? Like, was a substantial part of the audience just members from your group who had heard EA arguments about AIS?
I’d guess less than 1⁄4 of the people had engaged w AIS (e.g. read some books/articles). Perhaps 1⁄5 had heard about EA before. Most were interested in AI though.
Do you have a rough sense of how many of these had interacted with AI Safety programming/content from your group? Like, was a substantial part of the audience just members from your group who had heard EA arguments about AIS?
I’d guess less than 1⁄4 of the people had engaged w AIS (e.g. read some books/articles). Perhaps 1⁄5 had heard about EA before. Most were interested in AI though.