The Relationship Between AI Risk and Altruism

People concerned with AI risk are more likely to have like a deep belief in objective moral truth and kind of an ironic pair of people that tend to have this belief would be like effective altruists. Do you think there's a correlation there? So we've had this long history of science fiction depicting technical change, usually they have the villains be religious people opposing technical change; heroes are more liberal, open-minded folk. And so the thing to notice here is when you're looking at this far away in the abstract, you tend to believe you would be so encompassing and generous When it's closer and you actually feel the threat all that goes away. You're right back to being like everybody