Many people in the AI ethics community seem to find almost everything offensive.
I’ve seen no evidence that they’re worth engaging with on the topic of AI X-risk. They routinely caricature and demonize AI Safety researchers and EAs on social media, they seem not to have read any of the key works on AI X-risk, and their epistemic standards seem very weak.
While I admire Peter Breggren’s attempt to entice them to engage in object-level objections to AI Safety research, I very much doubt that they will engage in any serious discussion of this issue.
Well, you can dismiss them and their argument if you want to — I personally don’t find their arguments terribly convincing, and their social media presence is, as you point out, strident.
But one must be aware that to a surprising extent, they control the narrative about AI safety in academia and the mainstream media. So if one cares about making AI safety seem credible, it’s worth engaging with them.
Do they really control the narrative in the “mainstream media,” though, or just a few far-left content mills that tend to get clicks by being really outrageous?
Many people in the AI ethics community seem to find almost everything offensive.
I’ve seen no evidence that they’re worth engaging with on the topic of AI X-risk. They routinely caricature and demonize AI Safety researchers and EAs on social media, they seem not to have read any of the key works on AI X-risk, and their epistemic standards seem very weak.
While I admire Peter Breggren’s attempt to entice them to engage in object-level objections to AI Safety research, I very much doubt that they will engage in any serious discussion of this issue.
Well, you can dismiss them and their argument if you want to — I personally don’t find their arguments terribly convincing, and their social media presence is, as you point out, strident.
But one must be aware that to a surprising extent, they control the narrative about AI safety in academia and the mainstream media. So if one cares about making AI safety seem credible, it’s worth engaging with them.
Do they really control the narrative in the “mainstream media,” though, or just a few far-left content mills that tend to get clicks by being really outrageous?