Evan Hubinger on Effective Altruism and AI Safety
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In episode 9 of The Gradient Podcast, we interview Yannic Kilcher, an AI researcher and educator.
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Evan is an AI safety veteran who’s done research at leading AI labs like OpenAI, and whose experience also includes stints at Google, Ripple andYelp. He currently works at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) as a Research Fellow, and joined me to talk about his views on AI safety, the alignment problem, and whether humanity is likely to survive the advent of superintelligent AI.
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