Virtual Brainstorm: Share & Upvote Your Favorite AI Safety Advocates/Speakers

I'm creating this thread/project because I want to get a sense of who people's top AI Safety Advocates are. If you like them, share their name in the comments and then upvote your faves.

AND A SPECIAL REQUEST: Do you know any "Dark Horses" aka compelling speakers who have relatively low visibility in the discourse?

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 7:51 PM

I'm going to kick this off by listing a few popular ones.

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 7:51 PM

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Founder of Machine Intelligence Research Institute

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 7:51 PM

Max Tegmark. Professor of Physics, MIT

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 7:51 PM

Connor Leahy, CEO of ConjectureAI; Ex-Head of AI Eleuther

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 7:54 PM

Liron Shapira, AI doom pointer-outer

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 7:56 PM

John Sherman, host of the For Humanity Podcast (he's a dark horse here imo lol )

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 7:58 PM

Yoshua Bengio, "Godfather of AI"; Scientific Director, Mila

full-green•5/3/24, 7:59 PM

Tristan Harris, Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:02 PM

Geoffrey Hinton. "Godfather of AI" and Former VP at Google,

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:08 PM

Helen Toner, Ex-OpenAI Director, Director of Strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:09 PM

Ian Hogarth, Chair of UK Government's AI Foundation Model Taskforce, Founder of Songkick

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:10 PM

Emmett Shear, Cofounder of Twitch and Ex-Interim CEO of OpenAI

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:13 PM

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:15 PM

Ilya Sutskever, Chief Scientist of OpenAI

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:25 PM

@Daj @DanHendrycks Would love to hear if ya'll have anyone that comes to mind. (I try to use my tags judiciously and in this case I thought it was warranted!)

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:26 PM

@Marcus Aurelius got any faves??

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:38 PM

What's missing from this list is academics, aside from Hinton and Bengio, who make compelling arguments. Curious if ya'll have seen any academics who are great public advocates on interviews & such?

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:46 PM

Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype; Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

primary-violetOP•5/3/24, 8:47 PM

Flo Crivello, Founder & CEO of Lindy

full-green•5/3/24, 8:50 PM

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, AI Safety researcher; coiner of the term "AI Safety"

wet-aqua•5/3/24, 10:25 PM

I've often thought getting Jordan Peterson onboard with pausing AI would be a good idea. He knows about minds, is outside the AI space (broaden audience), has a lot of dedicated followers that will hang on his every word, and Jim Keller is brother-in-law (tech hook). I realize he’s controversial, but the message needs to get out even if the messenger is not loved by all.

primary-violetOP•7/13/24, 11:02 PM

Bumping this up again!

primary-violetOP•7/13/24, 11:02 PM

Here's a few new ones

primary-violetOP•7/13/24, 11:02 PM

Jeremie and Eduard Harris

Virtual Brainstorm: Share & Upvote Your Favorite AI Safety Advocates/Speakers

AND A SPECIAL REQUEST: Do you know any "Dark Horses" aka compelling speakers who have relatively low visibility in the discourse?

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