How effective altruism, branded by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, influences the White House's, Congress', and think tanks' approach to AI regulation
or rather, it works on the same sort of psychological impulses that have led to millenniarian cults across recorded history 2) For EA to still play an effective and even necessary role in making sure AI is... @8teapi : Risk-ism vs traditional cost benefit analysis is one of the major analytics axes on which most policy has broken down. Bureaucrats are terrified of making value decisions for eg the value of getting SpaceX to Mars is worth more than the fish stocks in the sea next to Boca... Patrick Collison / @patrickc : I'm not an effective altruist, but I find the recent genre of pieces like the below a bit strange. Essentially all of the major AI lab leaders agree that AI potentially poses enormous risks[1], as does a majority of the US public[2]. It's not a crank view... Marc Andreessen / @pmarca : If you are truly concerned about the substance of “AI safety”, you should be most mad at the corporate operators who have cynically hijacked your movement and are burning it down in real time. Joe Gebbia / @jgebbia : Some people think AI will completely destroy humanity. What's is AI doing with its time after everyone is gone? “...versus AI, which will destroy us to the last person.” https://www.politico.com/... Marc Andreessen / @pmarca : However it started, it's becoming obvious in DC that “AI safety” is now a cynical astroturf campaign to grant monopoly/cartel protection to a small set of incumbent big tech companies. Perhaps the least politically appealing program one can imagine. https://www.politico.com/... Tim O'Brien / @_timobrien : Very good @BrendanBordelon piece today on the escalating influence of effective altruism in D.C., and its aversion to scientific, data-driven decision making in favor of weird, cultish fear mongering. < https://www.politico.com/...> [image] LinkedIn: Andrew Lang : The AI debate in Washington this past year has been quite disconcerting. The “effective altruism” (EA) movement, advocating for stringent AI regulations due …