"Lessons learned from talking to >100 academics about AI safety" by Marius Hobbhahn
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client: lesswrong
project_id: curated
feed_id: ai, ai_safety
narrator: pw
qa: km
narrator_time: 2h20m
qa_time: 45m
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Excerpt:
During my Master's and Ph.D. (still ongoing), I have spoken with many academics about AI safety. These conversations include chats with individual PhDs, poster presentations and talks about AI safety.
I think I have learned a lot from these conversations and expect many other people concerned about AI safety to find themselves in similar situations. Therefore, I want to detail some of my lessons and make my thoughts explicit so that others can scrutinize them.
TL;DR: People in academia seem more and more open to arguments about risks from advanced intelligence over time and I would genuinely recommend having lots of these chats. Furthermore, I underestimated how much work related to some aspects AI safety already exists in academia and that we sometimes reinvent the wheel. Messaging matters, e.g. technical discussions got more interest than alarmism and explaining the problem rather than trying to actively convince someone received better feedback.
Original article:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SqjQFhn5KTarfW8v7/lessons-learned-from-talking-to-greater-than-100-academics
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