There’s a decent overlap in expertise needed to address these questions.
This doesn’t yet seem obvious to me. Take the nuclear weapons example. Obviously in the Manhattan project case, that’s the analogy that’s being gestured at. But a structural risk of inequality doesn’t seem to be that well-informed by a study of nuclear weapons. If we have a CAIS world with structural risks, it seems to me that the broad development of AI and its interactions across many companies is pretty different from the discrete technology of nuclear bombs.
I want to note that I imagine this is a somewhat annoying criticism to respond to. If you claim that there are generally connections between the elements of the field, and I point at pairs and demand you explain their connection, it seems like I’m set up to demand large amounts of explanatory labor from you. I don’t plan to do that, just wanted to acknowledge it.
OK, thanks! The negative definition makes sense to me. I remain unconvinced that there is a positive definition that hits the same bundle of work, but I can see why we would want a handle for the non-technical work of AI risk mitigation (even before we know what the correct categories are within that).