+1; except that I would say we should expect to see more, and more high-profile.
AI xrisk is now moving from “weird idea that some academics and oddballs buy into” to “topic which is influencing and motivating significant policy interventions”, including on things that will meaningfully matter to people/groups/companies if put into action (e.g. licensing, potential restriction of open-sourcing, external oversight bodies, compute monitoring etc).
The former, for a lot of people (e.g. folks in AI/CS who didn’t ‘buy’ xrisk) was a minor annoyance. The latter is something that will concern them—either because they see the specific interventions as a risk to their work, or because they feel policy is being influenced in a major way by people who are misguided.
I would think it’s reasonable to anticipate more of this.
either because they see the specific interventions as a risk to their work, or because they feel policy is being influenced in a major way by people who are misguided
or because they feel it as a threat to their identity or self-image (I expect these to be even larger pain points than the two you identified)
+1; except that I would say we should expect to see more, and more high-profile.
AI xrisk is now moving from “weird idea that some academics and oddballs buy into” to “topic which is influencing and motivating significant policy interventions”, including on things that will meaningfully matter to people/groups/companies if put into action (e.g. licensing, potential restriction of open-sourcing, external oversight bodies, compute monitoring etc).
The former, for a lot of people (e.g. folks in AI/CS who didn’t ‘buy’ xrisk) was a minor annoyance. The latter is something that will concern them—either because they see the specific interventions as a risk to their work, or because they feel policy is being influenced in a major way by people who are misguided.
I would think it’s reasonable to anticipate more of this.
or because they feel it as a threat to their identity or self-image (I expect these to be even larger pain points than the two you identified)