Explicitly using x-risk language, no, just me that I know of. Definite yes, to high appetite to talk about AI. Definite yes, to job loss, so that I think “mass job loss” is within public consciousness now.
There’s a fallacy/bias at play here. At some psychological or mythological level, people basically conflate “recessions” with “the apocalypse.” So “mass unemployment” and “lose control and kill everyone” are pretty near in the Overton window, so if we’re up to mass unemployment, we can start talking about “safety testing” even though that’s not directly relevant to unemployment.
Not mentioned in my post, and should have in retrospect, but Bernie Sanders has taken interest in AI-caused human extinction, explicitly, using numbers like “10% or 20% chance” in interviews. He is very respected with the left and with some smaller number of right-populists so it’s important to see if he’s successful in normalizing the topic.
Oh lastly—I came in with more canvass experience but numbers and conversation quality are pretty consistent between me, and the other AI safety motivated volunteers. The fundamentals are doing most of the work.
Explicitly using x-risk language, no, just me that I know of. Definite yes, to high appetite to talk about AI. Definite yes, to job loss, so that I think “mass job loss” is within public consciousness now.
There’s a fallacy/bias at play here. At some psychological or mythological level, people basically conflate “recessions” with “the apocalypse.” So “mass unemployment” and “lose control and kill everyone” are pretty near in the Overton window, so if we’re up to mass unemployment, we can start talking about “safety testing” even though that’s not directly relevant to unemployment.
Not mentioned in my post, and should have in retrospect, but Bernie Sanders has taken interest in AI-caused human extinction, explicitly, using numbers like “10% or 20% chance” in interviews. He is very respected with the left and with some smaller number of right-populists so it’s important to see if he’s successful in normalizing the topic.
Oh lastly—I came in with more canvass experience but numbers and conversation quality are pretty consistent between me, and the other AI safety motivated volunteers. The fundamentals are doing most of the work.