Ben Garfinkel is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Acting Director of the Centre for the Governance of AI.

In this episode we talk about:

An overview of AI governance space, and disentangling concrete research questions that Ben would like to see more work on
Seeing how existing arguments for the risks from transformative AI have held up and Ben’s personal motivations for working on global risks from AI
GovAI’s own work and opportunities for listeners to get involved

Further reading and a transcript is available on our website: hearthisidea.com/episodes/garfinkel

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