Jess Whittlestone: head of AI policy at Center for Long-Term Resilience, much research here
Plenty of others: Jade Leung (AI governance and evaluations at OpenAI), Prof. David Krueger (varied AI safety research), Prof. Percy Liang (evaluating models), Prof. Roger Grosse (influence functions for interpretability), many others listed here.
Economists who have written (esp. but not only deflationary arguments contra Davidson) on AI’s economic impact:
Sampled from my areas of personal interest, and not intended to be at all thorough or comprehensive:
AI researchers (in no particular order):
Prof. Jacob Steinhardt: author of multiple fascinating pieces on forecasting AI progress and contributor/research lead on numerous AI safety-relevant papers.
Dan Hendrycks: director of the multi-faceted and hard-to-summarize research and field-building non-profit CAIS.
Prof. Sam Bowman: has worked on many varieties of AI safety research at Anthropic and NYU
Ethan Perez: researcher doing fascinating work to display and address misalignments in today’s AIs.
Toby Shevlane: Model Evaluations for Extreme Risks
Jess Whittlestone: head of AI policy at Center for Long-Term Resilience, much research here
Plenty of others: Jade Leung (AI governance and evaluations at OpenAI), Prof. David Krueger (varied AI safety research), Prof. Percy Liang (evaluating models), Prof. Roger Grosse (influence functions for interpretability), many others listed here.
Economists who have written (esp. but not only deflationary arguments contra Davidson) on AI’s economic impact:
Chad Jones (see here)
Ben Jones (see e.g. this, but also all his research)
Matt Clancy (see this debate, though an episode with him should also address his non-AI work as well!)
Daron Acemoglu (see Power and Progress)
Maybe other reviewers here?
Ethicists:
Iason Gabriel: has worked both on critiques of effective altruism, AI evaluations (extreme risks, representation), and normative questions related to AI alignment. This excellent FLI interview had so many ideas that would be great to explore in more depth.
David Thorstad: has written critiques of existential risk reduction and longtermism.
Emma Curran: author of contractualist reply to longtermism
The three I would personally be most excited to listen to: Toby Shevlane, Matt Clancy, Iason Gabriel.
+1 on David Thorstad