Remembering Scott's AI Researchers On AI Risk. The debate about AI is heating up, and a lot of people rely on authority figures for knowing what to believe. Do we have a current list of notable AI X-risk believers? Would there be value in compiling such a list?

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mako yass

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A statement of concern signed by all (famous) major players and many other respected technologists https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Signatories:

mako yass

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I wont be offended if someone from an institution wants to start another one/completely replace all of the content (if so go ahead), but I've made the tiniest start here. I invite others to add/edit/take over. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rJkw0YLe9XMe1Zi_QdWzPwJt2Kld6HeLn1ehlyWos4A/edit#gid=0

I'd suggest ordering the list according to which names we most expect to make a difference to the kind of audience would need to see a list like this, so don't place Elon Musk at the top, or possibly at all, unless you can think of an exceptionally convincing "relevant qualifications" section for him.

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Seems valuable as a lot of people want social affirmation before considering the hypothesis.

Looking for confirming evidence and evidence from authority is not an especially rationalist move.