Thank you @Ulrik Horn! I think warning shots may very well be important.
From my other piece: building up organizations in anticipation of future ‘trigger events’ is vital for protests, so that they can mobilize and scale in response – the organizational factor which experts thought was most important for protests. I think the same is true for GMOs: pre-existing social movements were able to capitalise on trigger events of 1997/1998, in part, because of prior mobilisation starting in 1980s.
I also think that engineered pathogen event is a plausible warning shot for AI, though we should also broaden our scope of what could lead to public mobilisation. Lots of ‘trigger events’ for protest groups (e.g. Rosa Parks, Arab Spring) did not stem from warning shots, but cases of injustice. Similarly, there weren’t any ‘warning shots’ which posed harm for GMOs. (I say more about this in other piece!)
Thank you @Ulrik Horn! I think warning shots may very well be important.
From my other piece: building up organizations in anticipation of future ‘trigger events’ is vital for protests, so that they can mobilize and scale in response – the organizational factor which experts thought was most important for protests. I think the same is true for GMOs: pre-existing social movements were able to capitalise on trigger events of 1997/1998, in part, because of prior mobilisation starting in 1980s.
I also think that engineered pathogen event is a plausible warning shot for AI, though we should also broaden our scope of what could lead to public mobilisation. Lots of ‘trigger events’ for protest groups (e.g. Rosa Parks, Arab Spring) did not stem from warning shots, but cases of injustice. Similarly, there weren’t any ‘warning shots’ which posed harm for GMOs. (I say more about this in other piece!)