After some conversations here I thought I would try and find out what the community of people who care about AI risk think are the priorities for research.
To represent peoples opinions fairly I wanted to get input from people who care about the future of intelligence. Also I figure that other people will have more experience designing and analyzing surveys than me and getting their help or advice would be a good plan.
Planning document
Here is the planning document, give me a shout if you want edit rights. I'll be filling in the areas for research over the next week or so.
I'll set up a trello if I get a few people interested.
But a quantum research institute that is funded via donations might ask the public which of the many experiments they want to run might attract funding. They can hire more researchers and answer more questions. Build good will etc.
Sure, he who pays the piper calls the tune :-) but I don't know if it's a good way to run science. However if you want to go in that direction, shouldn't your poll be addressed to potential (large) donors?