Thanks David I agree its not obvious that it’s tractable, can you explain the argument for it not being neglected a bit, or point me to a link about that? I thought the number of people working on it was only in the high hundreds to low thousands?
I think that 6 months ago, “high hundreds” was a reasonable estimate. But there are now major governments that have explicitly said they are interested, and tons of people from various different disciplines are contributing. (The UK’s taskforce and related AI groups alone must have hired a hundred people. Now add in think tanks around the world, etc.) It’s still in early stages, but it’s incredibly hard to argue it’s going to remain neglected unless EA orgs tell people to work on it.
Thanks David I agree its not obvious that it’s tractable, can you explain the argument for it not being neglected a bit, or point me to a link about that? I thought the number of people working on it was only in the high hundreds to low thousands?
I think that 6 months ago, “high hundreds” was a reasonable estimate. But there are now major governments that have explicitly said they are interested, and tons of people from various different disciplines are contributing. (The UK’s taskforce and related AI groups alone must have hired a hundred people. Now add in think tanks around the world, etc.) It’s still in early stages, but it’s incredibly hard to argue it’s going to remain neglected unless EA orgs tell people to work on it.
Thanks, interesting answer appreciate it.