I’ve run very successful group brainstorming sessions with experts just in order to require them to actually think about a topic enough to realize what seems obvious to me. Getting people to talk through what the next decade of AI progress will look like didn’t make them experts, or even get to the basic level I could have presented in a 15 minute talk—but it gives me me a chance to push them beyond their cached thoughts, without them rejecting views they see as extremes, since they are the ones thinking them!
I’ve run very successful group brainstorming sessions with experts just in order to require them to actually think about a topic enough to realize what seems obvious to me. Getting people to talk through what the next decade of AI progress will look like didn’t make them experts, or even get to the basic level I could have presented in a 15 minute talk—but it gives me me a chance to push them beyond their cached thoughts, without them rejecting views they see as extremes, since they are the ones thinking them!