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Re:AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come ... by groundhogstate on Sunday April 12, 2026 @06:43AM (#47738177)
Many. 80,000 hours has been on the topic for a long while. Agree with the EA crowd or not, they have some thought provoking analyses and a decent newsletter. The future of humanity institute has also been vocal on the topic for some time. Both have a lot of material you could get acquainted with. I know of at least one professional union in my country that is dedicating time and talking to political figures. I'm sure there is one you could contribute to. Or try start one.

Plus the labs themselves, of course.

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Re:AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come ... by tokioyoyo on Sunday April 12, 2026 @06:51AM (#47738235)
Thank you. I’ve seen/read a bunch from the EA crowd, and think pieces from different contributors/labs, but most I’ve seen sounded very hypothetical with “yeah big bad stuff might happen, we don’t have a solution yet”.

And the other side, “pause/ban AI” crowd, also sounded impractical, as the vested interests from governments and private industries will not really let it happen.

Sorry for yapping, it might be that I’m looking at the wrong sources.

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Re:AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come ... by lps41 on Sunday April 12, 2026 @06:47AM (#47738204)
EA?
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Re:AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come ... by tao_oat on Sunday April 12, 2026 @06:54AM (#47738252)
Effective Altruism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
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Re:AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come ... by apothegm on Sunday April 12, 2026 @07:01AM (#47738284)
“Effective altruism”. (Recommended to be researched with a healthy dose of skepticism.)
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Re:AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come ... by tokioyoyo on Sunday April 12, 2026 @06:57AM (#47738261)
I believe they meant Effective Altruism, pieces from lesswrong and etc.
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Re:AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come ... by amelius on Sunday April 12, 2026 @08:24AM (#47738850)
Why are they so invisible?
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