“My theory of change for working in AI healthtech” by

“My theory of change for working in AI healthtech” by Andrew_Critch

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This post starts out pretty gloomy but ends up with some points that I feel pretty positive about. Day to day, I'm more focussed on the positive points, but awareness of the negative has been crucial to forming my priorities, so I'm going to start with those. It's mostly addressed to the EA community, but is hopefully somewhat of interest to LessWrong and the Alignment Forum as well. My main concernsI think AGI is going to be developed soon, and quickly. Possibly (20%) that's next year, and m...

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