How might outsiders make things go well? (opens in new tab)

I've been thinking about the role of outsiders over the next decade as we transition to ASI. By "outsiders", I mean the AI safety community outside the frontier labs, plus some other actors trying to make things go well. This is in contrast to other groups like: (i) employees at the frontier labs ("insiders"), (ii) senior government officials and policymakers, and (iii) the general public.[1] My current views:Outsiders are a key component of things going well. In this article, I go through th...