Which leads to the question of how we can get more people to produce promising work in AI safety. There are plenty of highly intelligent people out there who are capable of doing work in AI safety, yet almost none of them do. Maybe trying to popularize AI safety would help to indirectly contribute to it, since it might help to convince geniuses with the potential to work in AI safety to start working on it. It could also be an incentive problem. Maybe potential AI safety researchers think they can make more money by working in other fields, or maybe there are barriers that make it extremely difficult to become an AI safety researcher.
If you don’t mind me asking, which AI safety researchers do you think are doing the most promising work? Also, are there any AI safety researchers who you think are the least promising, or are doing work that is misguided or harmful?
Which leads to the question of how we can get more people to produce promising work in AI safety. There are plenty of highly intelligent people out there who are capable of doing work in AI safety, yet almost none of them do. Maybe trying to popularize AI safety would help to indirectly contribute to it, since it might help to convince geniuses with the potential to work in AI safety to start working on it. It could also be an incentive problem. Maybe potential AI safety researchers think they can make more money by working in other fields, or maybe there are barriers that make it extremely difficult to become an AI safety researcher.
If you don’t mind me asking, which AI safety researchers do you think are doing the most promising work? Also, are there any AI safety researchers who you think are the least promising, or are doing work that is misguided or harmful?