I’d be very interested to read up a post about your thoughts about this (though I’m not sure what ‘ITT’ means in this context?) and I’m curious about which SSC post that you’re referring to.
I also want to say I’m not sure how universal the ‘EAs have been caught so off guard’ claim is. Some have sure, but plenty were hoping the the AI risk discussion stays out of the public sphere for exactly this kind of reason.
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’d be very interested to read up a post about your thoughts about this (though I’m not sure what ‘ITT’ means in this context?) and I’m curious about which SSC post that you’re referring to.
I also want to say I’m not sure how universal the ‘EAs have been caught so off guard’ claim is. Some have sure, but plenty were hoping the the AI risk discussion stays out of the public sphere for exactly this kind of reason.
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).