“what does it look like, in practice, to implement ‘AI safety...should have its own movement, separate from EA’?”
Creating AI Safety focused Conferences, AI Safety university groups and AI Safety local meet-up groups? Obviously attendees will initially overlap very heavily with EA conferences and groups but having them separated out will lead to a bit of divergence over time
Wouldn’t this run the risk of worsening the lack of intellectual diversity and epistemic health that the post mentions? The growing divide between long/neartermism might have led to tensions, but I’m happy that at least there’s still conferences, groups and meet-ups where these different people are still talking to each other!
There might be an important trade-off here, and it’s not clear to me what direction makes more sense.
I am all for efforts to do AIS movement building distinct from EA movement building by people who are convinced by AIS reasoning and not swayed by EA principles. There’s all kinds of discussion about AIS in academic/professional/media circles that never reference EA at all. And while I’d love for everyone involved to learn about and embrace EA, I’m not expecting that. So I’m just glad they’re doing their thing and hope they’re doing it well.
I could probably have asked the question better and made it, “what should EAs do (if anything), in practice to implement a separate AIS movement?” Because then it sounds like we’re talking about making a choice to divert movement building dollars and hours away from EA movement building to distinct AI safety movement building, under the theoretical guise of trying to bolster the EA movement against getting eaten by AIS? Seems obviously backwards to me. I think EA movement building is already under-resourced, and owning our relationship with AIS is the best strategic choice to achieve broad EA goals and AIS goals.
“what does it look like, in practice, to implement ‘AI safety...should have its own movement, separate from EA’?”
Creating AI Safety focused Conferences, AI Safety university groups and AI Safety local meet-up groups? Obviously attendees will initially overlap very heavily with EA conferences and groups but having them separated out will lead to a bit of divergence over time
Wouldn’t this run the risk of worsening the lack of intellectual diversity and epistemic health that the post mentions? The growing divide between long/neartermism might have led to tensions, but I’m happy that at least there’s still conferences, groups and meet-ups where these different people are still talking to each other!
There might be an important trade-off here, and it’s not clear to me what direction makes more sense.
I don’t think there’s much of a trade-off, I’d expect a decent proportion of AI Safety people to still be coming to EA conferences
I am all for efforts to do AIS movement building distinct from EA movement building by people who are convinced by AIS reasoning and not swayed by EA principles. There’s all kinds of discussion about AIS in academic/professional/media circles that never reference EA at all. And while I’d love for everyone involved to learn about and embrace EA, I’m not expecting that. So I’m just glad they’re doing their thing and hope they’re doing it well.
I could probably have asked the question better and made it, “what should EAs do (if anything), in practice to implement a separate AIS movement?” Because then it sounds like we’re talking about making a choice to divert movement building dollars and hours away from EA movement building to distinct AI safety movement building, under the theoretical guise of trying to bolster the EA movement against getting eaten by AIS? Seems obviously backwards to me. I think EA movement building is already under-resourced, and owning our relationship with AIS is the best strategic choice to achieve broad EA goals and AIS goals.