The Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started

Zvi Mowshowitz surveys the sudden preference cascade on AI existential risk: shifting surveys and polls, Elon Musk and Matthew Yglesias weighing in, Jacob Coxon’s AMA, Bilal Chughtai’s resignation from DeepMind, Dan Selsam’s essay on why merely pacing the frontier will not be enough, and what it would actually take to get through this alive. The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:35 - The Cascade Was a Long Time Coming * 03:13 - The Cascade Has Reached The People * 05:25 - Elon Musk Doubles Down * 06:02 - Matthew Yglesias Steps Up * 09:18 - Op-Eds and Posts Are Written * 11:24 - Jacob Coxon AMA * 17:54 - Bilal Chughtai Quits DeepMind and Sounds the Alarm * 20:55 - The Cascade Is Insufficient * 22:08 - What Would It Take * 29:07 - OpenAI’s Dan Selsam Sounds A Louder Alarm * 43:54 - Some People Worry On Meta Levels You Never Imagined * 45:09 - Two Kinds of Threats * 46:43 - The Two Towers and The Narrow Path * 48:42 - A Specific, Detailed Story About AI Killing Everyone That Doesn’t Sound To Me Like Science Fiction * 51:48 - What Can I Do About It? https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-preference-cascade-is-only-getting?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe