34% of the US public is now aware of AI xrisk, and the curve is steepening by Otto

(This post is an up­date from a pre­vi­ous one here, and also on LessWrong.)The Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Ob­ser­va­tory has been in­ter­ested in pub­lic aware­ness of AI ex­is­ten­tial risk since its in­cep­tion over five years ago. We started sur­vey­ing pub­lic aware­ness in De­cem­ber 2022, in­clud­ing by ask­ing the fol­low­ing open ques­tion:“Please list three events, in or­der of prob­a­bil­ity (from most to least prob­a­ble), that you be­lieve could po­ten­tially cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion with...