How I think students should orient to AI safety | Buck Shlegeris

Buck argues that students should engage with AI safety by trying to actually assess the arguments and the safety proposals. He claims that this is doable and useful.

Buck Shlegeris is a researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Buck works to make the future good for sentient beings; at the moment he believes that working on existential risk from artificial intelligence is my best bet for doing this.

This talk was taken from EA Student Summit 2020. Click here to watch the talk with the PowerPoint presentation.

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