One project I’ve been thinking about is making (or having someone else make) a medical infographic that takes existential risks seriously, and ranks them accurately as some of the highest probability causes of death (per year) for college-aged people. I’m worried about this seeming too preachy/weird to people who don’t buy the estimates though.
I’d be excited to see this, though agree that it could come across as too weird, and wouldn’t want to widely and publicly promote it.
If you do this, I recommend trying to use as reputable and objective a source as you can for the estimates.
Fair points!
I’m personally pretty unconvinced of this. I conceive of AI Safety work as “solve the problem of making AGI that doesn’t kill everyone” more so than I conceive of it as “figure out humanity’s coherent extrapolated vision and load it into a sovereign that creates a utopia”. To the degree that we do explicitly load a value system into an AGI (which I’m skeptical of), I think that the process of creating this value system will be hard and messy and involve many stakeholders, and that EA may have outsized influence but is unlikely to be the deciding voice.