This is not exactly the answer you’re looking for, and I’m not confident about this, but I think it’s maybe good to refine your reasons for working on AI risk and being clear what you mean first, and after you get a good sense of what you mean (at least enough to convince a much more skeptical version of yourself), a more easily explainable version of the arguments may come naturally to you.
(Take everything I say here with a huge lump of salt...FWIW I don’t know how to explain EA or longtermism or forecasting stuff to my own parents, partially due to the language barrier).
This is not exactly the answer you’re looking for, and I’m not confident about this, but I think it’s maybe good to refine your reasons for working on AI risk and being clear what you mean first, and after you get a good sense of what you mean (at least enough to convince a much more skeptical version of yourself), a more easily explainable version of the arguments may come naturally to you.
(Take everything I say here with a huge lump of salt...FWIW I don’t know how to explain EA or longtermism or forecasting stuff to my own parents, partially due to the language barrier).