I think that the survey should have been designed and carried out by an independent party. The author is a senior program officer at OPP who is known to have a lot of influence over funding in the AI x-risks space. It seems they themselves have selected “47 relatively senior people who have been full-time working on AI x-risk reduction for multiple years”. The author sent those people a request to fill a survey that starts with the words: “I want to launch […]”. The survey was not anonymous, a fact that was addressed on the survey form:
(Seeing names will be useful to me for doing “robustness sanity checks” on how different the outcome would have been if I had surveyed a moderately different population, and will thus inform my qualitative analysis.)
(I am not taking here a stance for or against the specific initiative that the survey was asking about.)
I think that the survey should have been designed and carried out by an independent party. The author is a senior program officer at OPP who is known to have a lot of influence over funding in the AI x-risks space. It seems they themselves have selected “47 relatively senior people who have been full-time working on AI x-risk reduction for multiple years”. The author sent those people a request to fill a survey that starts with the words: “I want to launch […]”. The survey was not anonymous, a fact that was addressed on the survey form:
(I am not taking here a stance for or against the specific initiative that the survey was asking about.)