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Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe

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Technical AI Safety Research

The Centre for Human Compatible AI at UC Berkeley focuses on academic research to ensure AI is safe and beneficial to humans. The algorithmic alignment group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, led by Dylan Hadfield-Mannell. Our podcast with Stuart Russell examines his approach to provably beneficial AI. We face a host of governance issues which include .point, coordination problems that are increasing the risks from AI. There could be incentives to use AI for personal gain in ways that can cause harm or race dynamics that reduce incentives for careful and safe AI development.

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