> AI Doomer coalition abandoned the name “AI safety” and rebranded itself to “AI alignment.”
Seems wrong
(Why do you believe this? I think this is a reasonable gloss of what happened around 2015-2016. I was part of many of those conversations, as I was also part of many of the conversations in which me and others gave up on “AI Alignment” as a thing that could meaningfully describe efforts around existential risk reduction)
Seems to me the name AI safety is currently still widely used, no? As it covers much more than just alignment strategies, by including also stuff like control and governance
(Why do you believe this? I think this is a reasonable gloss of what happened around 2015-2016. I was part of many of those conversations, as I was also part of many of the conversations in which me and others gave up on “AI Alignment” as a thing that could meaningfully describe efforts around existential risk reduction)
Seems to me the name AI safety is currently still widely used, no? As it covers much more than just alignment strategies, by including also stuff like control and governance
That’s a pretty recent thing! Agree that it has become more used recently (in the last 1-2 years) for practicalreasons.