“Relationship between EA Community and AI safety” by Tom Barnes

Personal opinion only. Inspired by filling out the Meta coordination forum survey. Epistemic status: Very uncertain, rough speculation. I’d be keen to see more public discussion on this questionOne open question about the EA community is it's relationship to AI safety (see e.g. MacAskill). I think the relationship EA and AI safety (+ GHD & animal welfare) previously looked something like this (up until 2022ish):With the growth of AI safety, I think the field now looks something like this:It's an open question whether the EA Community should further grow the AI safety field, or whether the EA Community should become a distinct field from AI safety. I think my preferred approach is something like: EA and AI safety grow into new fields rather than into eachother:AI safety grows in AI/ML communitiesEA grows in other specific causes, as well as an “EA-qua-EA” movement.As an ideal state, I could imagine the EA [...] --- First published: September 18th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/opCxiPwxFcaaayyMB/relationship-between-ea-community-and-ai-safety --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.