I was around at the workshop leading to the Leiden Declaration and was actively trying to talk to people about x-risk. I can confirm that 9⁄10 people I talked to seemed either dismissive or incredulous, with a few people being quite open to the concerns. There was, however, far from enough critical mass for this to gain any traction in the broader discussion and instead a lot of space was taken up by more proximate questions that somehow seemed to assume AI progress would stall at current levels. I can imagine this changed more recently, and separately that people the Netherlands tend to be a bit more forward thinking on these matters anyway (just based on my general impression).
I was around at the workshop leading to the Leiden Declaration and was actively trying to talk to people about x-risk. I can confirm that 9⁄10 people I talked to seemed either dismissive or incredulous, with a few people being quite open to the concerns.
There was, however, far from enough critical mass for this to gain any traction in the broader discussion and instead a lot of space was taken up by more proximate questions that somehow seemed to assume AI progress would stall at current levels.
I can imagine this changed more recently, and separately that people the Netherlands tend to be a bit more forward thinking on these matters anyway (just based on my general impression).