#Summit ministers outreach campaign (e-mails)

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raw crest
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The UK AI safety summit in november will be incredibly important. If we can properly prepare those who are invited, and get them to consider a pause, we increase the likelihood of the summit being actually useful.

So we need to:

  • Find out who we should focus our attention on. I'm assuming ministers of foreign affairs to receive the invite, and then their chief of staff being responsible for delegating preperations.
  • Send them a convincing e-mail. Should inform them about the stakes we're dealing with, and have concrete focus points / suggestions.

What do we want to convey

  • Urgency. We may have very short timelines. We've been surprised before. Legal things move slowly, but this time we need them to move fast. The AI safety summit needs policy outcomes!
  • Importance. If we fuck this up, we're putting all lives at risk. The difference between good and bad (or no) policy could mean everything.
  • Feasibility of pause / slow down. Slowing down is very popular with normal people. It's also what the scientists have been asking for since quite a while now. The only ones who do not seem to support this, are AI company CEOs, who for some reason keep being the centre of attention in the AI governance debate.
  • Clear asks. We should consider focusing on pre-training checks, instead of pause. Sufficient pre-training checks could effectively mean a pause, but if the checks are insufficient we could be doomed. In any case, we NEED a functional international body that can press the brakes if needed.

How you can help

  • Find out who will be invited! I don't know how.
  • Research your targets / recipients
  • Help writing convincing mails
lime bane
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Now the next Summit is in May and the idea is to e-mail representatives not so close to it, it can be now, or it can be a little closer to it like in February or March

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It would be good if we make a list of them to tick the ones reached so we don't spam their inboxes

stray patrol
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I have written to my local MP 🙂

raw crest
lime bane
lime bane
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And there will probably be an e-mail writing workshop next monday

raw crest
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Great work! 😁

lime bane
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"Senator Mitt Romney is “more terrified about AI” than optimistic, and his colleague Chris Murphy says, “The consequences of so many human functions being outsourced to AI is potentially disastrous.” Congresspeople Ted Lieu and Mike Johnson are literally “freaked out” by AI"
more about it and the sources here https://jacobin.com/2024/01/can-humanity-survive-ai

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I guess those are people who are not going to the summit.

what's exactly the theory of victory behind contacting representatives who don't go to the summit? would they contact people who do? or to other people in government spreading the meme until reaching the people who go?@raw crest

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Summit ministers outreach campaign (e-mails)

raw crest
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Regular politicians have all sorts of instruments to influence the government

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They can ask questions, submit motions, etc. So still very useful! Getting in touch with a minister is very hard.

lime bane
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See #1207340785964548126

lime bane
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Is there any good reason why progress on this hasn't been done?

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I mean, reaching out to your representatives is part of this project technically so there has been a lot of activity, but I wonder why not in this project

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Opinions on if attendees outside the countries are worth reaching out?