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#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk

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The Role of Governments in Building AI Systems

Do you know how much governments count here as being groups that we know are actively working towards this thing? I know that often US and China gets brought up but I'm curious if there's like governments there as well. But my understanding is that they're not players in building it themselves really in any significant way at the moment. This could change. It would be great if there's a government lab that's working really intensely on the safety piece specifically. They're definitely our government labs working on specific things. So then the key role of governments is regulation subsidies. How they intersect with the labs that you described previously. Lots of roles.

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