Doing my best to prevent an AGI catastrophe.
Maxime Fournes
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Existential AI safety needs an effective social movement. PauseAI is building it.
I would be curious to know if your beliefs have been updated in light of the recent developments?
Can Biden’s executive order be considered a win?
Hi Madeleine, PauseAI might be a useful example for your list, @Toby Tremlett🔹 already flagged it above.
On whether it’s an “EA organisation” (to @david_reinstein’s question on Toby’s thread): it isn’t, but it shares most of the values and collaborates closely with both the EA and broader AI safety ecosystems, and that collaboration is central to our theory of change. We’re squarely a movement-building / constituency-building org of the kind you’re describing: our bet is on building an organised public constituency that creates the political conditions for governance of frontier AI.
On your two axes, we sit at the far upstream, low-measurability corner. I’ll be candid that converting movement activity into attributable political outcomes is hard to measure, but it’s something we’re actively trying to get better at. We’ve got a longer write-up of our ToC coming soon and I’m happy to share it when it’s up.