Comment by isaac_spzindel

This is not entirely accurate. The majority of leaders from the old school AI folks and EA communities do not advocate attempting to stop AI development. Even Yudkowsky who is proabably the most doomer of them all, has advocated against it. This position does have a few supporters like Katja Grace, Kerry Vaughn, Adam Scholl etc but they are a minority.

Most of the EAs want to stop and delay progress like Brockman said in the TED talk but know that it's not achievable in any significant way. Their views are much closer to Brockman and Altman. It's just that, even with the same broad view, there is disagreement in actions and strategies.