Recently, as part of pulling my personal fire alarm, I applied to start a local chapter of what, I realize in hindsight, was PauseAI-US, and not PauseAI. They are apparently entirely different organizations. I did not realize this, despite having spent some time volunteering for PauseAI in the past.
Now, I am in a slightly awkward position: Do I continue trying to create a PAI-US chapter (I haven't heard back yet - application was over a month ago)? Or do I create a US chapter of PauseAI? Or perhaps there is a better way to do local advocacy. If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful to hear them.
I am feeling activated and motivated, and right now, my energy is mostly being wasted.
In lieu of other options, I have created a local coffee meetup on EventBrite, to start building a local community of people worried about existential risk from AI.
ControlAI is setting up volunteer groups around the US right now. The goal of these groups is to raise public awareness and meet with their federal representatives to brief them about extinction risk from ASI. You can sign up to a group or apply to lead one here: https://microcommit.io/groups
Recently, as part of pulling my personal fire alarm, I applied to start a local chapter of what, I realize in hindsight, was PauseAI-US, and not PauseAI. They are apparently entirely different organizations. I did not realize this, despite having spent some time volunteering for PauseAI in the past.
To make matters worse, this morning, PauseAI unendorsed PauseAI-US. This is a confusing situation.
Now, I am in a slightly awkward position: Do I continue trying to create a PAI-US chapter (I haven't heard back yet - application was over a month ago)? Or do I create a US chapter of PauseAI? Or perhaps there is a better way to do local advocacy. If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful to hear them.
I am feeling activated and motivated, and right now, my energy is mostly being wasted.
In lieu of other options, I have created a local coffee meetup on EventBrite, to start building a local community of people worried about existential risk from AI.