I intend to fund these efforts, and I would be even more interested in funding an effort run by someone with serious intentions and expertise in Going Viral (or whatever it is getting tiktok famous consists of nowadays). If AI notkilleveryoneism had 1% of the reach of abortion/climate/Holy Land content, we’d live in a much better world.
I think algorithm-optimization (along with its father, Advertising) is a dark art. But darn if I don’t want some dark artists on our side.
I’ve come to believe that the most (neglected x tractable x important) thing to do right now is Spread The Word. Ordinary folks have quite a bit more power, vigor, and wisdom than they’re (implicitly) given credit for around here. (“Agency” is the trendy way to put it, I think.) Estimates of “$0.01 per view on an AI risk explainer video” (https://manifund.org/projects/scaling-ai-safety-awareness-via-content-creators) or “$0.10 per click with a 5-6% share rate” (https://manifund.org//projects/testing-and-spreading-messages-to-reduce-ai-x-risk?tab=comments#1d592d6c-09f7-47bc-8d18-5675fa76556e) seem like darn good deals to me. (Adjust of course for extreme uncertainty and book-talking.)
I intend to fund these efforts, and I would be even more interested in funding an effort run by someone with serious intentions and expertise in Going Viral (or whatever it is getting tiktok famous consists of nowadays). If AI notkilleveryoneism had 1% of the reach of abortion/climate/Holy Land content, we’d live in a much better world.
I think algorithm-optimization (along with its father, Advertising) is a dark art. But darn if I don’t want some dark artists on our side.
Edit: I neglected to mention
https://manifund.org/projects/effective-ai-awareness-improving-evidence-based-ai-risk-communication
and https://manifund.org/projects/creating-making-god-an-accessible-feature-documentary-on-risks-from-agi