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Am I the only one who still feels uncomfortable telling people outside the AI safety bubble that I worry about frontier AI risks?

Maybe it's because:

I'm scared of being associated with EA.
I'm scared of being seen as anti-AI.
I'm scared of being seen as someone who only cares about existential risks, not today's harms.
I'm scared of being seen as elitist, as if I believe only people with deep technical expertise should have a say in AI's future.

But if even those of us who are AI safety-pilled hesitate to talk about it openly, how do we encourage more people who care about catastrophic AI risks to enter the field and work on them?

Curious if others feel the same.

I am not scared of being associated with EA, I would just say "uhm, I actually do not donate much".

Considering my enthusiastic talking about playing with Claude Code, no one could suspect me of being anti-AI.

...and generally, you seem to care too much about what someone else may think of you. Is there an instrumental reason for that, or are you just irrationally attached to the opinions of idiots? I mean, of course there are instrumental reasons for worrying about your image, I am just asking if you fear is proportional to that.

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I wonder what else we could do with wildly incorrect takes like the one which recently came onto LW.