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Someone should fund an AGI Blockbuster

Outside of niche circles on this site and elsewhere, the public's awareness about AI-related "x-risk" remains limited to Terminator-style dangers, which they brush off as silly sci-fi. In fact, most people's concerns are limited to things like deepfake-based impersonation, their personal data training AI, algorithmic bias, and job loss.[1] Even...

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Someone should fund an AGI Blockbuster

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Outside of niche circles on this site and elsewhere, the public's awareness about AI-related "x-risk" remains limited to Terminator-style dangers, which they brush off as silly sci-fi. In fact, most people's concerns are limited to things like deepfake-based impersonation, their personal data training AI, algorithmic bias, and job loss.^[1]

Even if people are concerned about current approaches to AI, they don't understand how they work. (Most people don't know the basics of LLMs)^[2]

This post does a good job explaining the shortfalls of current approaches to AI Safety. Most of the outreach is very insular and theory-heavy. ^[3] Even if people could be convinced of AI-related x-risk, they're not going to convinced by articles or deep... (read 1148 more words →)

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