Trust Is Gone: AI Safety Needs Individuals
When humanity avoids a disaster, it's usually because we have put preparations in place. To the uninformed, these seem like wastes of time—after all, nothing happened, so the threat wasn't real, right? However, when there weren't enough preparations, and calamity does occur, people can always find someone to blame for negligence.The Preparedness Paradox is almost always a communication issue.
- ▪When humanity avoids a disaster, it's usually because we have put preparations in place.
- ▪To the uninformed, these seem like wastes of time—after all, nothing happened, so the threat wasn't real, right?
- ▪However, when there weren't enough preparations, and calamity does occur, people can always find someone to blame for negligence.The Preparedness Paradox is almost always a communication issue.
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When humanity avoids a disaster, it's usually because we have put preparations in place. To the uninformed, these seem like wastes of time—after all, nothing happened, so the threat wasn't real, right? However, when there weren't enough preparations, and calamity does occur, people can always find someone to blame for negligence.The Preparedness Paradox is almost always a communication issue. If the public didn't think that safety measures were necessary after a disaster, then that's a clear sign that the issue isn't clear to the public. There seem to be two types of information loss that causes public misunderstanding.Type 1: Information of what was known before a disasterIt seems like the public commonly misgauges how much information is known by authorities/experts before a disaster.
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