Please make me care about x-risk

I've heard people talk a lot about how AI Safety, as a community, has a communication issue. In reality I think we, as society, have a 'difficulty caring about huge abstract problems' issue. This means that I think this issue is partially inherent to being human. But then again, we could probably do better.As someone who has grown out of a childhood of apathy, I've wrestled a lot with how to think about the transition from not giving a shit to giving a shit. As someone who has recently gotten into the general space of AI Safety/Biosec/EA, I found myself having similar feelings around x-risk, so here's an attempt at formalizing this.How I think giving a shit worksPhase 1. I've never heard of x- risk and would probably roll my eyes if someone mentioned it to me. It sounds a bit like a conspiracy/cult.Phase 2. I got over my judgement and started consuming a plethora "Here is my kill-chain of how AI will inevitably lead to our destruction"-style blog posts and youtube videos. A lot of these are incredibly well written and logically sound and great food for thought, but in quite an abstract-thought-experiment way. I think I get the gist of it, but I still don't actually "get it". Not in the same way that I can sit down in my apartment during the hottest June Europe has seen since 1950 and get really anxious about climate change. It's not emotional.Phase 3. I've engaged with this enough to be able to access a general feeling of urgency around this. I feel more comfortable communicating this to other people. The underlying assumption is that I'm probably still engaging with it in some way because I'm emotionally drawn to it.Phase 4. I am working/volunteering in or adjacent to x-risk and contributing actual value. A lot of my time is spent on this.Note the feedback loops. Caring about something will make you engage with it, which will make you know more and care more and engage with it more, etc.I don't think everyone needs to work on x-risk but ideally, we'd like more peop