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chaosmage comments on A big Singularity-themed Hollywood movie out in April offers many opportunities to talk about AI risk - Less Wrong
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I agree this movie will have an impact. My guess it will be polarizing, which is not the worst thing - right now the area of AI risk suffers from lack of attention more than from a specific opposing opinions. Having these themes enter public memesphere, even through entertainment, seems useful.
As far as MIRI commenting on it I think it's too early and would seem to an intelligent observer as jumping on the bandwagon attention whoring - the movie is not even out yet. I imagine after the release there will be a flurry of PopSci type of articles, at which point weighing it might be appropriate and well received.
I agree it would be early to comment now, but much gets written during the marketing run-up to release. By that time, not only after release, an easily findable comment can make a lot of impact. Compare how Wikileaks' comments on "The Fifth Estate", published before the release, influenced what got written about that movie.
And whoever writes something pre-release will be findable when people look for somebody to weigh in post-release.
Well one idea is write something on your blog and link it to MIRI; PageRank will do the rest :)
Another idea - organize a public movie event with a panel afterwards. Should attract a significant sci-fi fan interest and maybe get some coverage (maybe even use it as a fundraiser?). Louie Helm did this for "Our Final Invention". Will ping him.
The panel idea - especially if this can be done early, has a lot of value, could boost discussion and also provide a possible influx here.