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#159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less

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The Importance of Alignment in ML

Jan claimed that the super alignment team wouldn't be avoiding alignment work that helps with commercialization but that work in particular is already incentivized monetarily by definition so why isn't he going to try to avoid that work which will probably get done either way. Jan: I think fundamentally right like if you have two ways of building ADI and like one of them is much more aligned with humans people will want to buy the second one because it's just better for them. The problems that we want to solve are currently unsolved and yes some of it will be commercially valuable.

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