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177 - AI is a Ticking Time Bomb with Connor Leahy

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The Meta Problem of AI Alignment and AI Safety

I've been talking to quite a large number of AI people in the last like couple months or so. And it's been very interesting to me every time the topic of AI alignment and AI safety comes up, how different approaches the conversation can take across the board. So as we come to the end of this conversation, I'm wondering how to tie this off with just understanding the relationship between what it means to be human and how to solve AI alignment. Sounds like the real question, you know, the ultimate question. But again, when we were trying to unpack the different categories for how AI might come to destroy the world, you called this a deeply meta problem. You talked about how

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