Change "Risks" ocurrences for "Dangers"

[Pato-desu]

It was recommended by a media advisor that we use that term in general. Do you have any complain about it?

[joepio]

It's a big change in comms strategy, but I think it makes sense. I like 'dangers' more than 'risks'.

[Pato-desu]

When I imagine replacing these occurrences: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3APauseAI%2Fpauseai-website+risk&type=code&p=1, even the ones that don't come hand in hand with the word "existential", they sound a lot worse in my mind.
But maybe it's just me.

[anthonybailey]

X-risk is handy jargon once you know it, and we shouldn't avoid it entirely. But yes, "danger" captures the concern more simply and cleanly and evocatively than "risk". Risk summons probabilities and maths, including calculations based on solid statistics. It is important for folk to understand prediction is hard and we have inherent uncertainties, but one thing at a time. If we are amending the noun in "existential risk" to "danger" then I think the natural associated replacement concept is "extinction". There is an "extinction danger", or a "danger of extinction".

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