On the flip side, this means that if we do know people who are AI experts but not from the US/EU/China, forwarding this information to them so that they can apply with a higher chance of being accepted might be valuable.
Agree, especially from developing countries without a strong preexisting stance on AI, where choices could be less biased towards experts who already have lots of prestige, and more weighted on merits + lobbying.
Huh that is a really good point. There are way too many people with US/UK backgrounds to easily differentiate between the expert pretenders and the really substantial experts. It’s even getting harder to do so on LW for many topics as karma becomes less and less meaningful.
And I can’t imagine the secretary general’s office will have that much time to scrutinize each proposed candidate, so it might even be a positive thing overall.
On the flip side, this means that if we do know people who are AI experts but not from the US/EU/China, forwarding this information to them so that they can apply with a higher chance of being accepted might be valuable.
Agree, especially from developing countries without a strong preexisting stance on AI, where choices could be less biased towards experts who already have lots of prestige, and more weighted on merits + lobbying.
Huh that is a really good point. There are way too many people with US/UK backgrounds to easily differentiate between the expert pretenders and the really substantial experts. It’s even getting harder to do so on LW for many topics as karma becomes less and less meaningful.
And I can’t imagine the secretary general’s office will have that much time to scrutinize each proposed candidate, so it might even be a positive thing overall.
Exactly! Thank you for highlighting this.