From about minute 32 of this Monday’s 538 Podcast, Nate Silver & crew discuss AI politics and risk. As an outlet strongly aligned with “taking evidence and forecasting and political analysis seriously” I thought this was pretty interesting for a number of reasons, both in terms of arguments but also explicit discussion of EA community:
Nate Silver making the point that this is much more important than other issues, that a 5% ex risk would be a really big deal
Fairly detailed and somewhat accurate description of EA community
Insularity of EA/AI risk community and difficulty of translating this to wider public
Warning shots as the primary mechanism for actual risk being lower
Rationality / EA community mentioned as good at identifying important things
Difficulty of taking the issue fully seriously
In other podcast episodes Nate also mentioned he will cover AI risk in some detail in his upcoming book
[Linkpost] 538 Politics Podcast on AI risk & politics
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From about minute 32 of this Monday’s 538 Podcast, Nate Silver & crew discuss AI politics and risk. As an outlet strongly aligned with “taking evidence and forecasting and political analysis seriously” I thought this was pretty interesting for a number of reasons, both in terms of arguments but also explicit discussion of EA community:
Nate Silver making the point that this is much more important than other issues, that a 5% ex risk would be a really big deal
Fairly detailed and somewhat accurate description of EA community
Insularity of EA/AI risk community and difficulty of translating this to wider public
Warning shots as the primary mechanism for actual risk being lower
Rationality / EA community mentioned as good at identifying important things
Difficulty of taking the issue fully seriously
In other podcast episodes Nate also mentioned he will cover AI risk in some detail in his upcoming book