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.
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.