Important article with a bunch of very good ideas.
Wanted to add a simple one.
Physical proximity and microinteractions build trust. If you want to convince the people working on AI, you need to hang out with them more. Visits, internships, cooperations, conferences. Show them you are sane, show them you can play their games and conform to their standards. Listening. Learning what they care about, what terms piss them off, how they speak, what stuff they need and want, what you need to know and be able to do to be taken seriously by them, showing them respect and appreciation. If you are receptive to learning from them, they are more receptive to learning from you. A lot of concerns on the alignment and control problem have immediate payoffs for issues that they are concerned with now, e.g. making sure their current AIs are useful without giving malicious advice or reproducing racism. And with a problem as abstract and hard to approach as alignment, focussing on such specific problems can also be a path to new approaches and progress.
Important article with a bunch of very good ideas.
Wanted to add a simple one.
Physical proximity and microinteractions build trust. If you want to convince the people working on AI, you need to hang out with them more. Visits, internships, cooperations, conferences. Show them you are sane, show them you can play their games and conform to their standards. Listening. Learning what they care about, what terms piss them off, how they speak, what stuff they need and want, what you need to know and be able to do to be taken seriously by them, showing them respect and appreciation. If you are receptive to learning from them, they are more receptive to learning from you. A lot of concerns on the alignment and control problem have immediate payoffs for issues that they are concerned with now, e.g. making sure their current AIs are useful without giving malicious advice or reproducing racism. And with a problem as abstract and hard to approach as alignment, focussing on such specific problems can also be a path to new approaches and progress.