64% of Voters Say AI Could Threaten Humanity's Survival as EA Attention Surges
michael_nielsen · x · 2026-09-24
A long post analyzes why effective altruism is surging in attention: recent AI-risk events have gone mainstream, and EA was early to these concerns.
Drivers include:
- OpenAI's Hugging Face attack
- METR/Redwood's unsettling investigation of the hack
- Jacob Coxon's viral resignation, exposing that many builders of frontier AI believe there's a >10% chance such systems could kill everyone
Pollster davidshor updated the numbers:
- AI salience rose in one week as much as the previous year combined
- 80% of voters think AI will likely cause widespread job loss within 5-10 years
- 64% think AI could threaten humanity's survival
- Large bipartisan majorities back immediate government action on AI
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