EA - [Linkpost] 538 Politics Podcast on AI risk & politics by jackva

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Linkpost] 538 Politics Podcast on AI risk & politics, published by jackva on April 11, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.From about minute 32 of this Monday's 538 Podcast, Nate Silver & crew discuss AI politics and risk. As an outlet strongly aligned with "taking evidence and forecasting and political analysis seriously" I thought this was pretty interesting for a number of reasons, both in terms of arguments but also explicit discussion of EA community:Nate Silver making the point that this is much more important than other issues, that a 5% ex risk would be a really big dealFairly detailed and somewhat accurate description of EA communityInsularity of EA/AI risk community and difficulty of translating this to wider publicWarning shots as the primary mechanism for actual risk being lowerRationality / EA community mentioned as good at identifying important thingsDifficulty of taking the issue fully seriouslyIn other podcast episodes Nate also mentioned he will cover AI risk in some detail in his upcoming bookThanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.