The best EA critic is David Thorstadt, his work is compiled at “reflective altruism”. I also have a lot of critiques that I post here as well as on my blog. There are plenty of other internal EA critics you can find with the criticisms tag. (I’ll probably add to this and make it it’s own post at some point).
In regards to AI x-risk in particular, there are a few place where you can find frequent critique. These are not endorsements or anti-endorsements. I like some of them and dislike others.I’ve ranked them in rough order of how convincing i would expect them to be for the average EA (most convincing first).
First, Magnus vinding has already prepared an anti-foom reading list, compiling arguments against the “ai foom” hypothesis. His other articles on the subject of foom are also good.
AI optimism, by Nora Belrose and Quinton pope, argues the case that AI will be naturally helpful, by looking at present day systems and debunking poor x-risk arguments.
The AI snake oil blog and book, by computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayesh kapoor, which tries to deflate AI hype.
Gary marcus is a psychologist who has been predicting that deep learning will hit a wall since before the genAI boom, and continues to maintain that position. Blog, Twitter
Yann lecunn is a prestigious deep learning expert that works for meta AI and is strongly in favour of open source AI and anti-doomerism.
The effective accelerationists (e/accs) like marc andressen are strongly “full steam ahead” on AI. I haven’t looked into them much (they seem dumb) so I don’t have any links here.
Nirit Weiss-Blatt runs the AI panic blog, another anti AI-hype blog
The old tumblr user SU3SU2SU1 was a frequent critic of rationalism and MIRI in particular. Sadly it’s mostly been deleted, but his critic of HPMOR has been preserved here
David Gerard is mainly a cryptocurrency critic, but has been criticizing rationalism and EA for a very long time, and runs the “pivot to AI” blog attacking AI hype.
Tech won’t save us is a left wing podcast which attacks the tech sector in general, with many episodes on EA and AI x-risk figures in genral.
Timnit gebru is the ex-head of AI ethics in google. She strongly dislikes EA. Often associates with the significantly less credible Emille torres:
Emille torres, is an ex-EA who is highly worried about longtermism. They are very disliked here for a number of questionable actions.
r/sneerclub has massively dropped off in activity but has been mocking rationalism for more than a decade now, and as such has accumulated a lot of critiques.
The best EA critic is David Thorstadt, his work is compiled at “reflective altruism”. I also have a lot of critiques that I post here as well as on my blog. There are plenty of other internal EA critics you can find with the criticisms tag. (I’ll probably add to this and make it it’s own post at some point).
In regards to AI x-risk in particular, there are a few place where you can find frequent critique. These are not endorsements or anti-endorsements. I like some of them and dislike others. I’ve ranked them in rough order of how convincing i would expect them to be for the average EA (most convincing first).
First, Magnus vinding has already prepared an anti-foom reading list, compiling arguments against the “ai foom” hypothesis. His other articles on the subject of foom are also good.
AI optimism, by Nora Belrose and Quinton pope, argues the case that AI will be naturally helpful, by looking at present day systems and debunking poor x-risk arguments.
The AI snake oil blog and book, by computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayesh kapoor, which tries to deflate AI hype.
Gary marcus is a psychologist who has been predicting that deep learning will hit a wall since before the genAI boom, and continues to maintain that position. Blog, Twitter
Yann lecunn is a prestigious deep learning expert that works for meta AI and is strongly in favour of open source AI and anti-doomerism.
Emily bender is a linguist and the lead author on the famous “stochastic parrots” paper. She hosts a podcast, “mystery AI hype theatre 3000″, attacking AI hype.
The effective accelerationists (e/accs) like marc andressen are strongly “full steam ahead” on AI. I haven’t looked into them much (they seem dumb) so I don’t have any links here.
Nirit Weiss-Blatt runs the AI panic blog, another anti AI-hype blog
The old tumblr user SU3SU2SU1 was a frequent critic of rationalism and MIRI in particular. Sadly it’s mostly been deleted, but his critic of HPMOR has been preserved here
David Gerard is mainly a cryptocurrency critic, but has been criticizing rationalism and EA for a very long time, and runs the “pivot to AI” blog attacking AI hype.
Tech won’t save us is a left wing podcast which attacks the tech sector in general, with many episodes on EA and AI x-risk figures in genral.
Timnit gebru is the ex-head of AI ethics in google. She strongly dislikes EA. Often associates with the significantly less credible Emille torres:
Emille torres, is an ex-EA who is highly worried about longtermism. They are very disliked here for a number of questionable actions.
r/sneerclub has massively dropped off in activity but has been mocking rationalism for more than a decade now, and as such has accumulated a lot of critiques.