Hi everyone! We're running a free online two-hour workshop called AI Basics: Thrills or Chills?, an interactive film-based crash course/discussion about AI for non-technical people. It's been run for Cornell, Cambridge, the World Bank, the UK Cabinet Office etc.
Feedback on session for civil servants at the UK Home Office The UK Home Office is roughly equivalent in the US to the Department of Homeland Security, plus the Department of Justice, plus the Department of the Interior.
An anonymous post-session survey conducted by the UK Home Office found that:
89% of participants said they were “extremely likely” to recommend the session to a friend or colleague; 11% said they were “very likely” to recommend it.
67% said it made a very great/extreme change to their feeling of the importance of the AI revolution
89% said it made a very great/extreme change to their understanding of the social implications of AI
100% said the interactive, discussion-based format is better/much better than traditional e-Learning
100% said it was valuable/very valuable to hear other participants' feelings and opinions; and to express their own feelings and opinions - rather than just passively listen to experts / watch video
Opinion change: at the start of the session, the majority of participants said the AI revolution was only as important as “the internet”; at the end of the session, the majority of participants said the AI revolution was as important as “the industrial revolution” or “the evolution of humans”
This is the third in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan?
Summary
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer major legislative achievements, and fluctuating executive actions.
Public Opinion...
I think right now EAs might be making a significant mistake by paying insufficient attention to the political realm. As EAs we tend to figure out what’s most impactful for us to work on and focus hard. That’s great! But there are various actions that are ‘non-delegatable’ - the extent to which an individual can do the action is limited (like voting, going to a protest, making hard money contributions to particular campaigns). It might be useful if we were all more in the habit of doing variou...
New Video from AI in Context: The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman
If you want to skip straight to the video, here it is!
AI in Context is excited to be back with our fourth video! For those just hearing from us, we make videos for 80,000 Hours, telling stories about transformative AI...
