Here’s the equivalent poll for LessWrong. And here’s my summary:
“Big picture: the strongest support is for pausing AI now if done globally, but there’s also strong support for making AI progress slow, pausing if disaster, pausing if greatly accelerated progress. There is only moderate support for shutting AI down for decades, and near zero support for pausing if high unemployment, pausing unilaterally, and banning AI agents. There is strong opposition to never building AGI. Of course there could be large selection bias (with only ~30 people voting), but it does appear that the extreme critics saying rationalists want to accelerate AI in order to live forever are incorrect, and also the other extreme critics saying rationalists don’t want any AGI are incorrect. Overall, rationalists seem to prefer a global pause either now or soon.”
Here’s the equivalent poll for LessWrong. And here’s my summary:
“Big picture: the strongest support is for pausing AI now if done globally, but there’s also strong support for making AI progress slow, pausing if disaster, pausing if greatly accelerated progress. There is only moderate support for shutting AI down for decades, and near zero support for pausing if high unemployment, pausing unilaterally, and banning AI agents. There is strong opposition to never building AGI. Of course there could be large selection bias (with only ~30 people voting), but it does appear that the extreme critics saying rationalists want to accelerate AI in order to live forever are incorrect, and also the other extreme critics saying rationalists don’t want any AGI are incorrect. Overall, rationalists seem to prefer a global pause either now or soon.”