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Against Aschenbrenner: How 'Situational Awareness' constructs a narrative that undermines safety and threatens humanity — EA Forum

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Aschenbrenner’s ‘Situational Awareness’ (Aschenbrenner, 2024) promotes a dangerous narrative of national securitisation. This narrative is not, despite what Aschenbrenner suggests, descriptive, but rather, it is performative, constructing a particular notion of security that makes the dangerous world Aschenbrenner describes more likely to happen. This piece draws on the work of Nathan A. Sears (2023), who argues that the failure to sufficiently eliminate plausible existential threats throughout the 20th century emerges from a ‘national securitisation’ narrative winning out over a ‘humanity macrosecuritization narrative’. National securitisation privileges extraordinary measures to defend the nation, often centred around military force and logics of deterrence/balance of power and defence. Humanity macrosecuritization suggests the object of security is to defend all of humanity, not just the nation, and often invokes logics of collaboration, mutual restraint and constraints on sovereign

Against Aschenbrenner: How 'Situational Awareness' constructs a narrative that undermines safety and threatens humanity — EA Forum Hide table of contents Against Aschenbrenner: How 'Situational Awareness' constructs a narrative that undermines safety and threatens humanity by Deogin Jul 15 2024 25 min read 22 238 AI safety Existential risk AI moratorium Opinion Slowing down AI Frontpage Against Aschenbrenner: How 'Situational Awareness' constructs a narrative that undermines safety and threatens humanity Summary/Introduction Section 1- What is securitisation Section 2: Sears 2023 - The macrose

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