Australian survey shows people worry about AI safety

[thorny girder]

• 64% want gov to focus on catastrophic outcomes
• 28% human extinction
• 25% job loss
• 16% child porn
• 5% want focus on reducing bias

Order of importance

1. safety / alignment
2. jobs
3. cyber attacks
4. autonomous weapons

https://theconversation.com/80-of-australians-think-ai-risk-is-a-global-priority-the-government-needs-to-step-up-225175

[sour inlet]

that's funny how no one cares about bias even though it is at the forefront of AI companies...

[thorny girder]

AI ethics seems to be a very loud, yet very small minority.