Thanks for sharing these suggestions, they are very helpful.
A quick comment:
I am also excited by the idea of spreading these messages and doing it well. I suspect that outside of my EA contacts most people in my network have never received a single message that made them aware of the more serious risks of AI, or know of a good source to learn about them. Given that awareness of opportunity is a prerequisite for desirable reactions (e.g, changes in career choice or personal advocacy), this seems very suboptimal.
I recently attempted to spread some AI risk related messages on LinkedIn. (Everyone on LinkedIn sees many posts about ChatGPT, so I no-longer assign much probability to the chance that someone who reads a post about AI Safety will become aware of the potential of AI and decide to speed up capabilities research instead. )
When doing the posts I attempt to find a ‘hook’ that gets attention (e.g., I link and discuss an interesting video or outline some ways to use GPT3 - see posts linked below), share some personal views, then segue into a nudge to read a good source of AI risk related information.
My hope is doing this occasionally, over time, can increase awareness of, and engagement with good sources of information on AI risk, and have positive flow on effects etc.
What is the likely alternative?
If I don’t do posts like these it seems very unlikely that the people who read my posts will find out about AI risk for an extended period. I have yet to see a post on LinkedIn which mentions, or links to an ‘EA perspective’ on AI risk. Rarely do I see anything negative about AI—if so, such posts are focused on the short terms risks related to unemployment etc.
However, I find it hard (at least within the time I assign to writing content for LinkedIn) to communicate complex ideas while also engaging people on social media, and I wonder if I am simplifying things too much in my content.
With that in mind, I’d appreciate feedback from anyone is interested. This could be on my thoughts above, or on my two posts so far (see the two comments with links that I will add below). To leave feedback on the posts, please vote agree (if it seems ok/​good to post like this) or disagree (if you think it is better to not do), or reply to the relevant comment. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing these suggestions, they are very helpful.
A quick comment:
I am also excited by the idea of spreading these messages and doing it well. I suspect that outside of my EA contacts most people in my network have never received a single message that made them aware of the more serious risks of AI, or know of a good source to learn about them. Given that awareness of opportunity is a prerequisite for desirable reactions (e.g, changes in career choice or personal advocacy), this seems very suboptimal.
I recently attempted to spread some AI risk related messages on LinkedIn. (Everyone on LinkedIn sees many posts about ChatGPT, so I no-longer assign much probability to the chance that someone who reads a post about AI Safety will become aware of the potential of AI and decide to speed up capabilities research instead. )
When doing the posts I attempt to find a ‘hook’ that gets attention (e.g., I link and discuss an interesting video or outline some ways to use GPT3 - see posts linked below), share some personal views, then segue into a nudge to read a good source of AI risk related information.
My hope is doing this occasionally, over time, can increase awareness of, and engagement with good sources of information on AI risk, and have positive flow on effects etc.
What is the likely alternative?
If I don’t do posts like these it seems very unlikely that the people who read my posts will find out about AI risk for an extended period. I have yet to see a post on LinkedIn which mentions, or links to an ‘EA perspective’ on AI risk. Rarely do I see anything negative about AI—if so, such posts are focused on the short terms risks related to unemployment etc.
However, I find it hard (at least within the time I assign to writing content for LinkedIn) to communicate complex ideas while also engaging people on social media, and I wonder if I am simplifying things too much in my content.
With that in mind, I’d appreciate feedback from anyone is interested. This could be on my thoughts above, or on my two posts so far (see the two comments with links that I will add below). To leave feedback on the posts, please vote agree (if it seems ok/​good to post like this) or disagree (if you think it is better to not do), or reply to the relevant comment. Thanks!
No concrete useful feedback, just a note that I thought both posts were artfully tailored to your purpose and medium, nicely done!
Thanks, Akash, I really appreciate that you reviewed them and shared that!
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