I mostly agree with the body of this post, and think your calls to action make sense.
On your title and final note: Butlerian Jihad feels out of place. It’s catchy, but it seems like you are recommending AI concerned people more or less do what AI concerned people already do. I feel like we should save our ability to use words that are a call to arms for a time when that is what we are doing.
I think AI concerned people mostly take their concerns about AI to somewhat insular communities: Twitter, et. al. Wealthy interest groups are going to dominate internet communication and I don’t think that’s an effective way to drum up concern or coordination. The vast majority of the working-class, average Joe, everyday population is going to be opposed to AI for one reason or another; I think AI interest groups developing a united front specifically for this people would be the most effective technique.
(one way to accomplish this might be to spread these “quietly” among online sympathizers before “deploying” them to the public? I’m sure this sort of grassroots PR campaign has been solved and analyzed to death already)
I mostly agree with the body of this post, and think your calls to action make sense.
On your title and final note: Butlerian Jihad feels out of place. It’s catchy, but it seems like you are recommending AI concerned people more or less do what AI concerned people already do. I feel like we should save our ability to use words that are a call to arms for a time when that is what we are doing.
I think AI concerned people mostly take their concerns about AI to somewhat insular communities: Twitter, et. al. Wealthy interest groups are going to dominate internet communication and I don’t think that’s an effective way to drum up concern or coordination. The vast majority of the working-class, average Joe, everyday population is going to be opposed to AI for one reason or another; I think AI interest groups developing a united front specifically for this people would be the most effective technique.
(one way to accomplish this might be to spread these “quietly” among online sympathizers before “deploying” them to the public? I’m sure this sort of grassroots PR campaign has been solved and analyzed to death already)