For me as an outsider, it still looks like the AI safety movement is only about „how do we prevent AI from killing us?“. I know it‘s an oversimplification, but that‘s how, I believe, many who don‘t really know about AI perceive it.
I don’t think it’s that much of an oversimplification, at least for a lot of AIS folks. Certainly that’s a decent summary of my central view. There are other things I care about—eg not locking in totalitarianism—but they’re pretty secondary to ‘how do we prevent AI from killing us?’. For a while there was an effort in some quarters to rebrand as AINotKillEveryoneism which I think does a nice job centering the core issue.
It may as you say be unsexy, but it’s still the thing I care about; I strongly prefer to live, and I strongly prefer for everyone’s children and grandchildren to get to live as well.
I don’t think it’s that much of an oversimplification, at least for a lot of AIS folks. Certainly that’s a decent summary of my central view. There are other things I care about—eg not locking in totalitarianism—but they’re pretty secondary to ‘how do we prevent AI from killing us?’. For a while there was an effort in some quarters to rebrand as AINotKillEveryoneism which I think does a nice job centering the core issue.
It may as you say be unsexy, but it’s still the thing I care about; I strongly prefer to live, and I strongly prefer for everyone’s children and grandchildren to get to live as well.