Video talk about the Grace et al surveys on what AI researchers think about AI risk

There is much disagreement out there regarding what future progress in AI may have in store for us, including AI risk. What could then be more natural than asking AI researchers what they think? This is what Katja Grace and various collaborators have done in a series of surveys in 2016, 2022 and 2023. The results are interesting, partly in unexpected ways. Back in 2017, Katja gave an excellent talk about the first of those surveys, at a Gothenburg meeting that I hosted. Today I recorded a video lecture in which I comment on her findings back then and in the later surveys, with particular emphasis on whether and how much we can trust these AI researchers to make sound judgements about our future with AI: