Longtermism isn’t just AI risk, but concern with AI-risk is associated with a Elon Musk-technofuturist-technolibertarian-Silicon Valley idea cluster. Many progressives dislike some or all of those things and will judge AI alignment negatively as a result.
I wonder if it’s a good or bad thing that AI alignment (of existing algorithms) is increasingly being framed as a social justice issue, once you’ve talked about algorithmic bias it seems less privileged to then say “I’m very concerned about a future in which AI is given even more power”.
Longtermism isn’t just AI risk, but concern with AI-risk is associated with a Elon Musk-technofuturist-technolibertarian-Silicon Valley idea cluster. Many progressives dislike some or all of those things and will judge AI alignment negatively as a result.
I wonder if it’s a good or bad thing that AI alignment (of existing algorithms) is increasingly being framed as a social justice issue, once you’ve talked about algorithmic bias it seems less privileged to then say “I’m very concerned about a future in which AI is given even more power”.