I'm a bit late here, but I just felt the need to comment on this part: "I work in AI safety. What does Thiel think I should do?
My guess is that he probably thinks you should quit your job, but barring that you should look for ways to encourage economic progress as much as possible and minimize the extent to which government oversight, and in particular global government oversight, is needed."
Absolutely not!! He believes there are some dangers, which need to be mitigated, but never at the cost of the stagnation. It's likely that he is positive towards something like differential technology development.
I'm a bit late here, but I just felt the need to comment on this part:
"I work in AI safety. What does Thiel think I should do?
My guess is that he probably thinks you should quit your job, but barring that you should look for ways to encourage economic progress as much as possible and minimize the extent to which government oversight, and in particular global government oversight, is needed."
Absolutely not!! He believes there are some dangers, which need to be mitigated, but never at the cost of the stagnation. It's likely that he is positive towards something like differential technology development.