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Not sure what you mean, the movement to combat climate change is orders of magnitude bigger than the movement to combat AI risk - in terms of organizations dedi
by mlinsey 3y ago
Not sure what you mean, the movement to combat climate change is orders of magnitude bigger than the movement to combat AI risk - in terms of organizations dedicated to it, dollars donated, legislation passed, international treaties signed, investment in technologies to mitigate the risk.
Of course, the difference is that the technologies causing climate change are more deeply embedded throughout the economy, and so political resistance to anti-climate change measures is very strong as well. This is one reason in favor of addressing risk earlier, before we make our civilization as dependent on large neural nets as it currently is on fossil fuels. A climate change movement in the mid-1800s when the internal combustion engine was just taking off would also have been seen as quixotic and engaging in sci-fi fantasies though.