Any possibility to ask a follow-up question about what he would do with $100M? With all due respect to Ben, there's a good chance he'd overestimate the importance of his own project so I'd be more interested to see how he thinks other projects compare with each-other.
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With all respect to Ben, there's a good chance he'd overestimate the importance of his own project so I'd be more interested to see how he thinks other projects compare with each-other.
I think that is sufficiently outweighed by the fact that the same could be said about the SIAI.
Any possibility to ask a follow-up question about what he would do with $100M?
He said he would have to do more research into it. I really don't want to bother him even more with questions right now. But you can find his e-mail on his homepage.
Artificial general intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel answered my question on charitable giving and gave his permission to publish it here. I think the opinion of highly educated experts who have read most of the available material is important to estimate the public and academic perception of risks from AI and the effectiveness with which the risks are communicated by LessWrong and the SIAI.
Alexander Kruel asked:
Ben Goertzel replied:
What can one learn from this?
I'm planning to contact and ask various experts, who are aware of risks from AI, the same question.