Somehow EA always comes back to spending money on 'working on AI risk' which somehow never produces anything but blog posts.
I recommended it to a student once who was asking about career guidance. They came back and said they couldn’t figure it out, so I went looking into it deeper. I couldn’t get anything out of it either. It was just endless rambling podcasts at the time
Keep in mind that truly reliable and robust AI driving will save 10s of millions of lives and trillions of dollars of avoided economic losses.
Creating AI that can drive a car that virtually never crashes will be the pinnacle of software engineering, and a turning point in our civilization.
The savings in blood and money can’t come soon enough, but otherwise it’s basically a Very Good Thing it’s going to take a little while to get it really working.
We’re not really ready for the implications of software that can reason that well in the real world.