a big problem about AI safety advocacy is that we aren’t reaching enough people fast enough, this problem doesn’t have the same familiarity amongst the public as climate change or even factory farming and we don’t have people running around in the streets preaching about the upcoming AI apocalypse, most lesswrongers can’t even come up with a quick 5min sales pitch for lay people even if their live literally depended on it.
this might just be the best advocacy tool i have seen so far, if only we can get it to go viral it might just make the difference.
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i take this part back
most lesswrongers can’t even come up with a quick 5min sales pitch for lay people even if their live literally depended on it.
i have seen some really bad attempts at explaining AI-x risk in laymen terms and just assumed it was the norm, most of which were from older posts.
now looking at newer posts i think the situation is has greatly improved, not ideal but way better then i thought.
i still think this tool would be a great way to reach the wider public especially if it incorporates a better citation function so people can check the source material (it does sort of point the user to other websites but not technical papers).
Thanks! I think we’re close to a point where I’d want to put this in front of a lot of people, though we don’t have the budget for this (which seems ridiculous, given the stats we have for our ads results etc.), and also haven’t yet optimized the interface (as in, half the US public won’t like the gender dropdown).
Also, it’s much better at conversations than at producing 5min elevator pitches. (Hard to make it good at being where the user is while getting to a point instead of being very sycophantic).
The end goal is to be able to explain the current situation to people at scale.
this deserves way more attention.
a big problem about AI safety advocacy is that we aren’t reaching enough people fast enough, this problem doesn’t have the same familiarity amongst the public as climate change or even factory farming and we don’t have people running around in the streets preaching about the upcoming AI apocalypse, most lesswrongers can’t even come up with a quick 5min sales pitch for lay people even if their live literally depended on it.
this might just be the best advocacy tool i have seen so far, if only we can get it to go viral it might just make the difference.
edit:
i take this part back
i have seen some really bad attempts at explaining AI-x risk in laymen terms and just assumed it was the norm, most of which were from older posts.
now looking at newer posts i think the situation is has greatly improved, not ideal but way better then i thought.
i still think this tool would be a great way to reach the wider public especially if it incorporates a better citation function so people can check the source material (it does sort of point the user to other websites but not technical papers).
Thanks! I think we’re close to a point where I’d want to put this in front of a lot of people, though we don’t have the budget for this (which seems ridiculous, given the stats we have for our ads results etc.), and also haven’t yet optimized the interface (as in, half the US public won’t like the gender dropdown).
Also, it’s much better at conversations than at producing 5min elevator pitches. (Hard to make it good at being where the user is while getting to a point instead of being very sycophantic).
The end goal is to be able to explain the current situation to people at scale.