Why is that the metric that you would judge EA on? Huge portions of EA are entirely uninterested in AI risk. And AI risk isn't interested in botnets. Honestly,

Why is that the metric that you would judge EA on? Huge portions of EA are entirely uninterested in AI risk. And AI risk isn't interested in botnets. Honestly, have you read any of their material? If not, that's fine you don't have to be interested in it (it's getting plenty of attention at the moment and really is no longer a neglected cause) but why bother criticizing something you haven't attempted to understand? Either way, MIRI has published some papers that they think are working towards their goal. https://intelligence.org/research/ https://intelligence.org/research/ I'm not well informed enough on this subject to try to judge that claim, though, and overall I'm conflicted as to how important I should rate AI risk. But I think having some people work on it is good, in much the same way that I value basic science research.