EA says AI safety is an increasing focus of EA's and long-termers, EA's specifically. We could be to the AI systems what chimpanzees are to humans. The quality of that AI system is incredibly important to the survival of humanity. I think just as AI gets more advanced, we're going to turn more and more systems over to it.
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