Tim Urban has written about AI X-risk before, in a way that indicates that he’s spent a good bit of time thinking about the problem. But, the point of the book seems to be to speak to people who don’t have a deep knowledge of AI risk.
Not sure what he’s done on AI since, but Tim Urban’s 2015 AI blog post series mentions how he was new to AI or AI risk and spent a little under a month studying and writing those posts. I re-read them a few months ago and immediately recommended them to some other people with no prior AI knowledge, because they have held up remarkably well.
Fwiw the post also includes Stephen Fry, Tim Urban and Yishan Wong (although I agree these people don’t have deep ai x-risk experience)
Tim Urban has written about AI X-risk before, in a way that indicates that he’s spent a good bit of time thinking about the problem. But, the point of the book seems to be to speak to people who don’t have a deep knowledge of AI risk.
Not sure what he’s done on AI since, but Tim Urban’s 2015 AI blog post series mentions how he was new to AI or AI risk and spent a little under a month studying and writing those posts. I re-read them a few months ago and immediately recommended them to some other people with no prior AI knowledge, because they have held up remarkably well.