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Scott Aaronson: Against AI Doomerism

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Theoretical Computer Science Contributions to AI Safety

Ilya Satskover, a co-founder of OpenAI, and Jan Leikey, who's the head of the safety group at OpenAI, started talking to me a year ago. They said they think that we do actually have problems where, you know, a theoretical perspective would be helpful. And I was kind of like, why do you want me? You know, and they, you know,. I think part of it was because of my former students in quantum computing named Paul Christiano, who was a real superstar student - absolutely amazing.

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