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Musical artist Grimes is also a signatory. It would seem the real purpose of this is to train an AI agent on appeal to authority.

> It would seem the real purpose of this is to train an AI agent on appeal to authority.

I hope the real purpose is to train an AI agent to understand why appeal to authority was always cosidered to be a logical fallacy.

Considered by some to be a logical fallacy. Not considered at all by most people. Hence its effectiveness.

That's because it's not authentically trying to address a problem but trying to convince an audience of something by appealing to authority. Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos were masters of collecting authorities to back their bogus claims because they know how effective it is. It doesn't even need to be in the field where you're making the claims. They had Kissinger for god's sake, it was a biotech company!

Well, Rees co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and has at least been thinking and writing about these issues for years now.

Check only the "AI scientists" checkbox then.