Good characterization; I should have watched the video. Seems like she may be unwilling to consider that the weird Silicon Valley stuff is correct, but explicitly says she’s just raising the question of motivated reasoning.
The “writing scifi with your smart friends” is quite an unfair characterization, but fundamentally on us to counter. I think it will all turn on whether people find AI risk compelling.
For that, there’s always going to be a large constituency scoffing. There’s a level at which we should just tolerate that, but we’re still at a place where communicating the nature of AI risk work more broadly and more clearly is important on the margin.
Good characterization; I should have watched the video. Seems like she may be unwilling to consider that the weird Silicon Valley stuff is correct, but explicitly says she’s just raising the question of motivated reasoning.
The “writing scifi with your smart friends” is quite an unfair characterization, but fundamentally on us to counter. I think it will all turn on whether people find AI risk compelling.
For that, there’s always going to be a large constituency scoffing. There’s a level at which we should just tolerate that, but we’re still at a place where communicating the nature of AI risk work more broadly and more clearly is important on the margin.