SummaryPrevious research from Rethink Priorities found that a majority of the population (59%) agreed with a statement from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) that stated “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” 26% of the population disagreed with this statement. This research piece does further qualitative research to analyze this opposition in more depth.The most commonly mentioned theme among those who disagreed with the CAIS statement was that other priorities were more important (mentioned by 36% of disagreeing respondents), with climate change particularly commonly mentioned.This theme was particularly strongly occurring among younger disagreeing respondents (43.3%) relative to older disagreeing respondents (27.8%).The next most commonly mentioned theme was rejection of the idea that AI would cause extinction (23.4%), though some of these respondents agreed AI may pose other risks.Another commonly mentioned theme was the idea that [...] ---Outline:(00:05) Summary(01:43) Introduction(02:47) Common themes(04:37) Other priorities(09:55) Not extinction(11:34) Not yet(14:22) Control(16:48) Benefits(20:21) Not capable / Not physical (22:26) Sci fi(23:21) Responses from those who did not disagree(23:58) Demographic differences(25:07) Limitations and future researchThe original text contained 7 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. ---
First published:
August 15th, 2023

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RYNtykh5xM467zRNj/why-some-people-disagree-with-the-cais-statement-on-ai
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