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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Aligning and Artificial Intelligence

I want to discuss AI with you and especially issues around aligning and artificial intelligence to make it operate on behalf of humanity instead of against interest of humanity. I know you've been you recently found an organization is that right? Yeah I wasn't the person who put the initial impetus into it but I'm currently helping to run it. So at Redwood research we're trying to answer applied machine learning questions where we're actually training models. And our basic approach here is we want to take problems that we're worried about eventually causing grave risks for humanity, like technical difficulties that will cause existential risk later.

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