As I was going home from the champaign airport after a very eventful EAG conference, I struck up a conversation about AI safety with my lyft driver. I thought to myself “It’d be good to see what the public thinks. Maybe inform him of the risks. It’s positive counterfactual.”But as I spoke to him he started dropping words like “UBI” and drawing analogies to power concentration and gradual disempowerment. I was surprised to see how much he understood already. The conversation went one way or anoth