I don’t see public engagement as a bottleneck to AI Safety. If at all, it may help in getting the urgency it needs. Secondly, there are so many narratives and all of us are overwhelmed in terms of what to believe or who to believe.
If a voice/ org/ platform with credibility can lead in educating public, i believe it will be incredibly helpful.
Agreed, public engagement is not a direct bottleneck, but I think that governments respond to political salience, and the window for governance intervention is narrowing. Public engagement that builds salience might be what makes government regulation arrive in time rather than after power concentration. or gradual disempowerment has taken place.
On narrative overload, the Seismic research I cited found existential-risk framing performs worst across almost every demographic. So the problem may not just be too many voices, but that the loudest ones are using the register least likely to reach anyone not already convinced.
Hi ben
I don’t see public engagement as a bottleneck to AI Safety. If at all, it may help in getting the urgency it needs. Secondly, there are so many narratives and all of us are overwhelmed in terms of what to believe or who to believe.
If a voice/ org/ platform with credibility can lead in educating public, i believe it will be incredibly helpful.
Agreed, public engagement is not a direct bottleneck, but I think that governments respond to political salience, and the window for governance intervention is narrowing. Public engagement that builds salience might be what makes government regulation arrive in time rather than after power concentration. or gradual disempowerment has taken place.
On narrative overload, the Seismic research I cited found existential-risk framing performs worst across almost every demographic. So the problem may not just be too many voices, but that the loudest ones are using the register least likely to reach anyone not already convinced.