I always thought the average model for don’t let AI Safety enter the mainstream was something like (1) you’ll lose credibility and be called a loon and (2) it’ll drive race dynamics and salience. Instead, I think the argument that AI Ethics makes is “these people aren’t so much loons as they are just doing hype marketing for AI products in the status quo and draining counterfactual political capital from real near term harms”.
I think a bunch of people were hesitant about AI safety entering the mainstream because they feared it would severely harm the discussion climate around AI safety (and/or cause it to become a polarized left/right issue).
I always thought the average model for don’t let AI Safety enter the mainstream was something like (1) you’ll lose credibility and be called a loon and (2) it’ll drive race dynamics and salience. Instead, I think the argument that AI Ethics makes is “these people aren’t so much loons as they are just doing hype marketing for AI products in the status quo and draining counterfactual political capital from real near term harms”.
I think a bunch of people were hesitant about AI safety entering the mainstream because they feared it would severely harm the discussion climate around AI safety (and/or cause it to become a polarized left/right issue).