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#1 - Miles Brundage on the world's desperate need for AI strategists and policy experts

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is There a Future for Artificial Intelligence?

I try to focus on issues that are span different time horizons. So I think AI and security is something that we're already seeing some early instances of today. It's not totally clear whether the issues in the future will just be straightforward extensions of those or whether there will be qualitatively different risks. We don't really know what the extent will be, but it might turn out that there's significant trade-offs between safety and performance of AI systems. How to constrain human actors from doing that is a very difficult problem.

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