Stuart and Yoshua seem to be welcomed into the field just fine, and their stature as respected people on the topic of existential risk seems to be in good shape, and I don’t expect that to change on the relevant timescales.
I think people talking openly about the danger and harm caused by developing cutting edge systems is exactly the kind of thing that made them engage with the field, and a field that didn’t straightforwardly recognize and try to hold the people who are causing the harm accountable would have been much less likely to get at least Stuart involved (I know less about Yoshua). Stuart himself is one of the people who is harshest about people doing dangerous research, and who is most strongly calling for pretty hard accountability.
Stuart and Yoshua seem to be welcomed into the field just fine, and their stature as respected people on the topic of existential risk seems to be in good shape, and I don’t expect that to change on the relevant timescales.
I think people talking openly about the danger and harm caused by developing cutting edge systems is exactly the kind of thing that made them engage with the field, and a field that didn’t straightforwardly recognize and try to hold the people who are causing the harm accountable would have been much less likely to get at least Stuart involved (I know less about Yoshua). Stuart himself is one of the people who is harshest about people doing dangerous research, and who is most strongly calling for pretty hard accountability.