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

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Risk of Human Extinction in AI Training

One person asked how much risk of human extinction are you willing to take in a large training run for GPT-5. Another question was if they plan to err on the side of paranoia when it comes to giving AI's opportunities to hack themselves out or otherwise have channels of causal influence. "I think that I was also created real energy of like oh it seems really hard let's give up and that's I think absolutely the wrong approach," says Jeff Smith, head of software development at Google.

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