Community Polls on Alignment Controversies II

Please spend Thank you to everyone who filled out last month's polls . It was great to see 60+ comments engaging with these issues. This month’s survey has already been taken by a panel of 15 alignment researchers, including Scott Alexander (ACX), David Manheim (ALTER) and Jeff Sebo (NYU). We'll compare panel and community responses in an upcoming report, which we'll publish here and on EA Forum. To get notified when it's released, you can subscribe to our new Substack . Many people we've talked to have very different intuitions about where the alignment community stands on the below issues. We hope that your responses to these polls, and the resulting report, will help map core areas of (dis)agreement within the field, and ground CaML's research agenda. A few final things about the polls themselves: Please vote on EA Forum, or in the comments by agreeing or disagreeing with each statement. Timeframe: unless a statement says otherwise (e.g. post-AGI), read forward-looking claims as being about roughly the next 2 years. We're not trying to find the 'right' answers. Please answer based on your own best guess. % agree is your % credence in a given position Please let us know if you think the questions are ambiguous or embed false assumptions Any further engagement with the content of the polls in the comments is encouraged Thanks to BlueDot Impact for funding this work. The polls If animals continue to exist in a post-AGI world, animal suffering will not persist Benchmarks will…