This isn’t much of an update; talking about lab leak was effectively banned from polite society during 2021, and most credentialed AI experts today still don’t think AI is much of a risk. This study is more of a measure of what to expect from credentialed people, who were generally slow to update on X-risk related topics until too late (nuclear as well as AI), and at critical thinking in general.
It’s been a couple of years since 2021, so you might think that if there were persuasive reasons to believe in the lab leak theory, experts would know about them.
We are talking about experts in virology or other bio security-relevant domains. Those aren’t necessarily experts on all the evidence about the origin of COVID19.
This isn’t much of an update; talking about lab leak was effectively banned from polite society during 2021, and most credentialed AI experts today still don’t think AI is much of a risk. This study is more of a measure of what to expect from credentialed people, who were generally slow to update on X-risk related topics until too late (nuclear as well as AI), and at critical thinking in general.
It’s been a couple of years since 2021, so you might think that if there were persuasive reasons to believe in the lab leak theory, experts would know about them.
We are talking about experts in virology or other bio security-relevant domains. Those aren’t necessarily experts on all the evidence about the origin of COVID19.