Thank you for this work. I think it is interesting and valuable. Is any data on how external perspectives being collected on how public awareness and sentiment towards EA and related organisations has changed? This seems valuable to track.
We do have some survey data looking at this, from a couple of different projects, some looking at the general US population and some looking at more elite populations. Some of this is commissioned private work though, so I’m not sure if/when we’d be able to publish the details.
However, the general findings suggested by these surveys were that:
There are no signs of a large increase in awareness of EA in the population at large. The vast majority are still not aware of EA at all. This is also true for more elite groups.
Similarly, there are no signs of a significant backlash in terms of negative feeling towards EA. Most people are still weakly positive. This is presumably related to the fact that most people who have heard of EA have not heard of FTX. Among those who have heard of FTX there was an apparent worsening of attitudes towards EA.
Naturally with more work and larger samples we could provide more information with more confidence about this.
Thank you for this work. I think it is interesting and valuable. Is any data on how external perspectives being collected on how public awareness and sentiment towards EA and related organisations has changed? This seems valuable to track.
Thanks Peter!
We do have some survey data looking at this, from a couple of different projects, some looking at the general US population and some looking at more elite populations. Some of this is commissioned private work though, so I’m not sure if/when we’d be able to publish the details.
However, the general findings suggested by these surveys were that:
There are no signs of a large increase in awareness of EA in the population at large. The vast majority are still not aware of EA at all. This is also true for more elite groups.
Similarly, there are no signs of a significant backlash in terms of negative feeling towards EA. Most people are still weakly positive. This is presumably related to the fact that most people who have heard of EA have not heard of FTX. Among those who have heard of FTX there was an apparent worsening of attitudes towards EA.
Naturally with more work and larger samples we could provide more information with more confidence about this.