I hear what you’re saying. I probably should have made the following distinction:
A technology in the abstract (e.g. nuclear fission, LLMs)
A technology deployed to do a thing (e.g. nuclear in a power plant, LLM used for customer service)
The question I understand you to be asking is essentially how do we make safety cases for AI agents generally? I would argue that’s more situation 1 than 2, and as I understand it safety cases are basically only ever applied to case 2. The nuclear facilities document you linked definitely is 2.
So yeah, admittedly the document you were looking for doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t really surprise me. If you started looking for narrowly scoped safety principles for AI systems you start finding them everywhere. For example, a search for “artificial intelligence” on the ISO website results in 73 standards .
Just a few relevant standards, though I admit, standards are exceptionally boring (also many aren’t public, which is dumb):
UL 4600 standard for autonomous vehicles
ISO/IEC TR 5469 standard for ai safety stuff generally (this one is decently interesting)
ISO/IEC 42001 this one covers what you do if you set up a system that uses AI
You also might find this paper a good read: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9269875
My initial reaction, admittedly light on evidence, is that the numbers you present are at least partially due to selection bias. You’ve picked a set of issues, like climate change, that are not representative of the entire scope of “environmentalism.” It shouldn’t surprise anybody that “worry about global warming” is a blue issue, but the much more conservative-y “land use,” “protection of fish and wildlife” and “conservation,” issues for whatever reason are often not measured. In short, it feels a little to me that your actual argument is that liberal-coded environmental issues are partisan.
More than half of state wildlife conservation funding comes from hunting licenses and firearms taxes. I assure you, these fees mostly come from republicans in republican states. Here is some polling done in the west on environmental issues. It shouldn’t be a surprise that republican voters in Wyoming and rural Colorado care a lot about the environment, but one shouldn’t expect them to think about the issues in the same way as latte drinking knowledge workers in coastal cities.
It also might interest some to read how Nixon talked about the environment. This message to congress about founding the EPA in 1972 has some interesting passage, including the following:
I’ve paid attention to politics for a long time, but I’ve never heard a democrat talk like this about the environment. Just this one paragraph contains three progressive blasphemies, nearly one per sentence:
The idea that the environment belongs in any way shape or form to a nation or a people (is our heritage)
The idea that the environment derives its value from the “pleasure and refreshment” they “give man”
A higher right to exist not granted by man?????!