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Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe

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Working on Technical AI Safety

A second strategy for reducing risks from AI is to shape its development through policy, norms building and other governance mechanisms. Can it make sense to dedicate my career to solving an issue based on a speculative story about a technology that may or may not ever exist? Is this a form of Pascal's mugging, taking a big bet on tiny probabilities? We think there are strong responses to these questions.

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