Recently, Nathan Young and I wrote about arguments for AI risk and put them on the AI Impacts wiki. In the process, we ran a casual little survey of the American public regarding how they feel about the arguments, initially (if I recall) just because we were curious whether the arguments we found least compelling would also fail to compel a wide variety of people.

The results were very confusing, so we ended up thinking more about this than initially intended and running four iterations total. This is still a small and scrappy poll to satisfy our own understanding, and doesn’t involve careful analysis or error checking. But I’d like to share a few interesting things we found. Perhaps someone else wants to look at our data more carefully, or run more careful surveys about parts of it.

In total we surveyed around 570 people across 4 [...]

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First published:
September 4th, 2024

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vfaCvXuQHj8ztibCG/what-happens-if-you-present-500-people-with-an-argument-that

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“What happens if you present 500 people with an argument that AI is risky? ” by AI Impacts

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