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#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance

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The Mechanistic Story of Risk

Lance Putch: There's a mechanistic story you can tell about how we form our views about the level of risk posed by some phenomenon in the world. He says people focused on existential catastrophic risks have become more and less worried about something as they've thought in more depth about it. But there is, if you gather lots of facts and considerations, then overall, clactively, you're more likely to not have them all be lying on one side," he says.

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