Dinners for AI Safety

I’d be pretty happy if we lived in a world where in every reasonably sized city in the US (and perhaps more widely) there was one (or more) local regular dinners where people talked about AI. Not meetup groups, though those seem maybe good, too. Dinners, in someone’s home, run by nice people, ideally potluck or otherwise home-cooked, where they invite friends, family, and people they run into on the street, to just talk about AI, perhaps with guides or what to talk about or financial support, perhaps not. I think (though haven’t deeply researched) that this kind of thing has been responsible for quite a lot of political change. Most famously feminist consciousness-raising groups where small groups of women met in living rooms, often weekly, and took turns talking about their own lives on a chosen topic, which is where we get “the personal is political.” Moishe House and other groups fund people to run Shabbat dinners, just so more Jewish community can happen (this doesn't aim to or succeeed in leading to political action). Other examples Claude pulled below , with counterarguments below. And I think it solves a lot of problems at once. What can any person do? Host a dinner. People