Make thousands of clones of John von Neumann. Yes, first we will have to get some of his DNA and we will have to figure out exactly how to clone humans. But the payoff, at least over a 30-year-time scale, seems much bigger than anything else proposed. On a less ambitious but related front, identify profoundly gifted kids between, say, 8-16 and offer them free expert tutoring in return for some of that tutoring being about the importance and challenges of AI safety. The Davidson Institute would be a good place to start to look for such kids.
This makes me wonder if causes trying to recruit very smart kids is already a problem that organizations chosen by parents of smart kids view as an annoyance, and have adaptations against.
Make thousands of clones of John von Neumann. Yes, first we will have to get some of his DNA and we will have to figure out exactly how to clone humans. But the payoff, at least over a 30-year-time scale, seems much bigger than anything else proposed. On a less ambitious but related front, identify profoundly gifted kids between, say, 8-16 and offer them free expert tutoring in return for some of that tutoring being about the importance and challenges of AI safety. The Davidson Institute would be a good place to start to look for such kids.
This makes me wonder if causes trying to recruit very smart kids is already a problem that organizations chosen by parents of smart kids view as an annoyance, and have adaptations against.
Unlikely. The Davidson Institute does not get asked to recruit such children, and they would be the easiest pathway to such recruitment in the US.