Connor Leahy - CEO of Conjecture, an AI Safety startup. You're gonna get a lot of valuable hot takes from him.
Rob Miles - AI Safety YouTuber, although recently he's been busy with other stuff.
Dawn Drescher - CEO of ImpactMarkets, so knowledgeable about funding in the EA/AI Safety space, but also great person to talk to about a lot of stuff.
Oliver Habryka - LW Admin
Perrin Walker - aka SolenoidEntity, the voice behind SSC/ACX podcast and many other projects
Karl von Wendt aka Karl Olsberg - German sci-fi writer, educating the German public about AI X-risks
Kelsey Piper - no intro needed
Geoffrey Hinton ans/or Yoshua Bengio - likewise
Possibly naive question: if Non-Linear have material that undeniably rebuts these accusations and they only need to sort it out/organize for presentation, why not publish it in a disorganized/scrambled format, sort it out later and then publish clean/sorted out version? In this way, they will at least show that they're not scheming anything and are honest about why they asked Ben to delay the post.
What am I missing?
Also from MIRI: Abram Demski has lots of interesting ideas