I am also curious if you think the field of anthropology (and perhaps linguistics and other similar fields) might have something to offer the field of AI safety/alignment? Caveat: My understanding of both AI safety and anthropology is that of an informed lay person.
A perhaps a bit of a poor analogy: The movie “Arrival” features a linguist and/or anthropologist as the main character and I think that might have been a good observation from the script writer. Thus, one example output I could imagine anthropologists to contribute would be to push back on the framing of the binary or “AIs” and humans. It might be that in terms of culture, the difference between different AIs is larger than between humans and the most “human-like” AI.
People definitely seem excited in general about taking on more multidisciplinary approaches/research related to alignment (see this comment for an overview).
I am also curious if you think the field of anthropology (and perhaps linguistics and other similar fields) might have something to offer the field of AI safety/alignment? Caveat: My understanding of both AI safety and anthropology is that of an informed lay person.
A perhaps a bit of a poor analogy: The movie “Arrival” features a linguist and/or anthropologist as the main character and I think that might have been a good observation from the script writer. Thus, one example output I could imagine anthropologists to contribute would be to push back on the framing of the binary or “AIs” and humans. It might be that in terms of culture, the difference between different AIs is larger than between humans and the most “human-like” AI.
People definitely seem excited in general about taking on more multidisciplinary approaches/research related to alignment (see this comment for an overview).