I think it’s a process and just takes a bit of time. What I mean is roughly “People at some point agreed that there is a problem and asked what could be done to solve it. Then, often they followed up with ‘I work on problem X, is there something I could do?’. And then some of them tried to frame their existing research to make it sound more like AI safety. However, if you point that out, they might consider other paths of contributing more seriously. I expect most people to not make substantial changes to their research though. Habits and incentives are really strong drivers”.
I think it’s a process and just takes a bit of time. What I mean is roughly “People at some point agreed that there is a problem and asked what could be done to solve it. Then, often they followed up with ‘I work on problem X, is there something I could do?’. And then some of them tried to frame their existing research to make it sound more like AI safety. However, if you point that out, they might consider other paths of contributing more seriously. I expect most people to not make substantial changes to their research though. Habits and incentives are really strong drivers”.