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#154 - Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters

80,000 Hours Podcast

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How to Ensure AI Is Safe to Deploy

Rowan Shaw is a research scientist on the technical ADI safety team at DeepMind. Rowan did his PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley's Centre for Human-compatible AI. His dissertation focused on the idea that since we have optimized our environment to suit our preferences, an AI system should be able to infer some aspects of our preferences just by observing the current surrounding state of the world.

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