Interesting! Have you asked the UK-focused groups why they haven’t engaged with them?
On first blush, it seems a little confusing to blame folks working on US political campaigns for not doing enough in your own backyard, but perhaps I’m missing something here.
1) I believe (with low confidence) that the AI safety community should allocate more resources to political advocacy in the middle powers on the margin.
2) I believe (with moderate confidence) that opportunities for political advocacy in the middle powers are not sufficiently salient / recognised. E.g. for someone who is a) interested in getting involved, and b) based on the UK there will have been many salient opportunities to engage with the NY primary, and not many salient opportunities to engage with OPSS’ public consultation.
Addressing 2) would probably alleviate my concerns wrt. 1). I think this perspective is distinct from blaming “folks working on US political campaigns for not doing enough”—to be clear I’m glad Bores was supported and I think that the counter-deterrence was important.
I haven’t asked the UK groups about OPSS, and I would be interested to hear their take on it!
Interesting! Have you asked the UK-focused groups why they haven’t engaged with them?
On first blush, it seems a little confusing to blame folks working on US political campaigns for not doing enough in your own backyard, but perhaps I’m missing something here.
1) I believe (with low confidence) that the AI safety community should allocate more resources to political advocacy in the middle powers on the margin.
2) I believe (with moderate confidence) that opportunities for political advocacy in the middle powers are not sufficiently salient / recognised. E.g. for someone who is a) interested in getting involved, and b) based on the UK there will have been many salient opportunities to engage with the NY primary, and not many salient opportunities to engage with OPSS’ public consultation.
Addressing 2) would probably alleviate my concerns wrt. 1). I think this perspective is distinct from blaming “folks working on US political campaigns for not doing enough”—to be clear I’m glad Bores was supported and I think that the counter-deterrence was important.
I haven’t asked the UK groups about OPSS, and I would be interested to hear their take on it!